Microcotyle omanae n. sp. (Monogenea: Microcotylidae), a parasite of Cheimerius nufar (Valenciennes) (Sparidae) from the Arabian Sea |
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Authors: | Volodymyr K. Machkewskyi Evgenija V. Dmitrieva Sara Al-Jufaili Nashwa A. M. Al-Mazrooei |
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Affiliation: | 1. Laboratory of Parasitology, Fishery Quality Control Center, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Wealth of Sultanate of Oman, P.O. Box: 427, 100, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman 2. Department of Ecological Parasitology, Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine, 2 Nakhimov Avenue, Sevastopol, 99011, Ukraine
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Abstract: | Microcotyle omanae n. sp. (Monogenea: Microcotylidae) is described from the gills of Cheimerius nufar (Valenciennes) (Sparidae) from the Arabian Sea. The new species closely resembles Microcotyle arripis Sandars, 1945, M. helotes Sandars, 1944, M. caudata Goto, 1984 and M. sebastis Goto, 1984, which have also been found in the Indo-Pacific. Microcotyle omanae n. sp. differs from M. arripis, M. helotes and M. caudata by its greater number of testes, from M. arripis, M. helotes by its greater length of the genital atrium, length/width ratio of the genital atrium and length of the eggs, and from M. helotes also in greater width of the clamps, from M. caudata and M. sebastis in its greater number of clamps and additionally from M. sebastis by its smaller genital atrial spines and clamps and by the ratio between length and width of the genital atrium. Moreover, the mature specimens of the new species have greater average body length than all above mentioned species. Correlations between 15 morphometric characters and body length are analysed in the new species, and their significance for species differentiation is discussed. |
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