Rasheedia heptacanthi
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| Phylum: | Nematoda
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| Order: | Spirurida
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| Family: | Physalopteridae
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| Species: | Rasheedia heptacanthi
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| Rasheedia heptacanthi Moravec & Justine, 2018
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Rasheedia heptacanthi is a parasitic nematode in the genus Rasheedia.[1]
The species is an intestinal parasite of the Cinnabar goatfish Parupeneus heptacanthus (Mullidae) and (Sparidae) off New Caledonia.[1]
The two species Rasheedia heptacanthi and Rasheedia novaecaledoniensis, which both occur in New Caledonian waters, are mainly differentiated by the number of anterior protrusible oesophageal lobes (two in R. heptacanthi and four in R. novaecaledoniensis), structure of the oesophagus and the lengths of their spicules.[1]
Gallery: scanning electron microscopy of Rasheedia heptacanthi[]
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References[]
- ^ a b c Moravec, František; Justine, Jean-Lou (2018). "Rasheedia n. nom. (Nematoda, Physalopteridae) for Bulbocephalus Rasheed, 1966 (a homonym of Bulbocephalus Watson, 1916), with description of Rasheedia heptacanthi n. sp. and R. novaecaledoniensis n. sp. from perciform fishes off New Caledonia". Parasite. 25: 39. doi:10.1051/parasite/2018033. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 6063723. PMID 30052500.
Categories:
- Spirurida
- Nematodes described in 2018
- Parasitic nematodes of fish
- Fauna of New Caledonia