A phylogenetic study of Lepidapedoides Yamaguti, 1970 (Digenea) with a key and descriptions of two new species from western Australia

Bray, RA, Cribb, TH and Littlewood, DTJ (1998) A phylogenetic study of Lepidapedoides Yamaguti, 1970 (Digenea) with a key and descriptions of two new species from western Australia. Systematic Parasitology, 39 3: 183-197.


Author Bray, RA
Cribb, TH
Littlewood, DTJ
Title A phylogenetic study of Lepidapedoides Yamaguti, 1970 (Digenea) with a key and descriptions of two new species from western Australia
Journal name Systematic Parasitology   Check publisher's open access policy
Publication date 1998
Sub-type Article
DOI 10.1023/A:1005970227834
Volume number 39
Issue number 3
ISSN 0165-5752
Start page 183
End page 197
Total pages 15
Language eng
Abstract Two new species of the genus Lepidapedoides are described from the aulopodid teleost Aulopus purpurissatus from south-western Australia. Both are distinguished from other Lepidapedoides spp. by their pedunculate ventral sucker. Lepidapedoides pistoris n. sp. and L. elongatrium n. sp. are distinguished by the possession of a narrow, elongate form, a long ventral sucker to ovary distance: the vitellarium reaching only to the posterior level of the cirrus-sac, the cirrus-sac length and the deep genital atrium with the metraterm entering distally to its base in L. elongatrium. A key to species of the genus is given. A character matrix is included for the genus. Poorly resolved phylogenetic trees indicate two main lineages in the genus. The two new species described here are resolved as sister taxa. The new combination Lepidapedoides freitasi (Kohn gr Fernandes, 1970) is formed for Acanthocolpoides freitasi.
Keyword Parasitology
Lepocreadiidae Digenea
Fishes
Q-Index Code C1
Q-Index Status Provisional Code
Institutional Status Unknown

Document type: Journal Article
Sub-type: Article
Collection: School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
 
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