Some Adult Digenetic Trematodes in Striped Mullet from the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Authors

Robin M. Overstreet, Gulf Coast Research LaboratoryFollow

Date of this Version

10-1971

Comments

Published in the Journal of Parasitology (February 1971) 57(5): 967-974. Copyright 1971, the American Society of Parasitologists. Used by permission.

Abstract

Morphological information is given on the adults of four trematodes from Mugil cephalus from estuarine waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico with complementary information from specimens from Georgia. Lasiotocus glebulentus sp. n., from the Gulf, possesses a submedian genital pore and apparently differs from all known species by containing several large concretions in the excretory vesicle. Data are presented for Hymenocotta manteri Overstreet, 1969, Saccocoelioides beauforti (Hunter and Thomas, 1961) comb. n., and Dicrogaster fastigatus Thatcher and Sparks, 1958. These three species are now known from both the Gulf of Mexico and the western Atlantic coast. Carassotrema mugilicola Shireman, 1964, is transferred to the genus Chalcinotrema Freitas, 1947.