Glaucivermis spinosus gen. et sp. n. (Digenea: Zoogonidae) from the Southern Kingfish, Menticirrhus americanus (Linnaeus), in the Coastal Waters of Mississippi

Authors

Robin M. Overstreet, Gulf Coast Research LaboratoryFollow

Date of this Version

6-1971

Comments

Published in the Journal of Parasitology (June 1971) 57(3): 536-538. Copyright 1971, the American Society of Parasitologists. Used by permission.

Abstract

Glaucivermis spinosus is described from the intestine and pyloric ceca of Menticirrhus americanus collected near Ocean Springs, Mississippi, in the Gulf of Mexico and adjacent waters. The genus is characterized primarily by having a preacetabular intestinal bifurcation, a preacetabular sinistral genital pore, a bilobed vitellarium, a swelling of Laurer's canal to form the seminal receptacle, and tandem to diagonal testes. It is most similar to the genus Diphtherostomum from which it differs primarily in the arrangement of the testes.