Phyllodistomum scrippsi sp. n. (Digenea: Gorgoderidae) and Neobenedenia girellae (Hargis, 1955) Yamaguti, 1963 (Monogenea: Capsalidae) from the California Sheephead, Pimelometopon pulchrum (Ayres) (Pisces: Labridae)

Authors

Daniel R. Brooks, University of TorontoFollow
Monte A. Mayes, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Date of this Version

6-1975

Comments

Published in the Journal of Parasitology (June 1975) 61(3): 407-408. Copyright 1975, the American Society of Parasitologists. Used by permission.

Abstract

Phyllodistomum scrippsi sp. n. is described from the urinary bladder and Neobenedenia girellae is reported from the skin of Pimelometopon pulchrum from La Jolla, California. Phyllodistomum scrippsi differs from P. borisbychowskyi in possessing lobed vitell ari a, fewer extracecal uterine loops, irregular to lobed gonads, and larger eggs; and from P. acceptum in possessing a short esophagus, nondigitiform vitelline lobes, and an oral sucker larger than the acetabulum. An annotated checklist of trematodes parasitizing P. pulchrum is given.