Digenetic trematodes of Lebanese coast fishes: the species complexes Lepocreadium album (Stossich, 1890) and Lepocreadium pegorchis (Stossich, 1900) (Lepocreadiidae)

Trematodes belonging to the species Lepocreadium album (Stossich, 1890) and L. pegorchis (Stossich, 1900) were found in Spondyliosoma cantharus and Spicara smaris (their type-hosts, respectively) and other fishes in Lebanese waters. Morphometric variations in body-size, size and form of the pharynx, egg-size in relation to body-size, etc, according to host-species, are reported and commented upon. L. album obladae n. subsp. is erected for specimens from Oblada melanura.