Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of
Date of this Version
1953
Citation
Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, v. 20, no.2 (1953)
Abstract
This paper describes three new species of monogenetic trematodes collected by the senior author from fishes at Suva, Fiji, in 1951. A new genus is named for one of these species. A fourth species, previously known from India, is identified. Parasites of the numerous fishes of the South Pacific have been studied very little and, so far as we can learn, no Monogenea has been reported from this region. One difficulty met in collecting there was lack of adequate identification of the hosts. In these particular cases, only the common or native names of the fishes were obtained. Often, however, the general type of family of the fish was evident.
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