Folia Parasitologica 69:016 (2022) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2022.016

Description of Ichthyascaris grandis sp. n., redescription of Raphidascaroides halieutaeae Yin, 1983 and new records of some other raphidascaridid and philometrid nematodes from marine fishes off Java, Indonesia

Franti¹ek Moravec ORCID...1, Thorsten Walter2, Asri Trisnani Yuniar3
1 Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Èeské Budìjovice, Czech Republic;
2 Ostseestation Travemünde, Priwallpromenade 29-31, Germany;
3 Aquatic Animal Health Center, Central Proteinaprima, Indonesia

Examinations of nematodes collected from some marine fishes off the southwestern coast of Java, Indonesia in 2000 and 2001 revealed the presence of the following six species: ascaridoids Ichthyascaris grandis sp. n. from the intestine of Lophiomus setigerus (Vahl), I. cf. longispicula Li, Liu, Liu et Zhang, 2012 from the intestine of Conger cinereus Rüppel, Ichthyascaris sp. from the body cavity of Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch), and Raphidascaroides halieutaeae Yin, 1983 from the intestine of Halieutaea stellata (Vahl), and philometrids Philometra ivaschkini Parukhin, 1976 from the stomach wall of Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus and P. psettoditis Moravec, Walter et Yuniar, 2012 from the body cavity (liver) of Psettodes erumei (Bloch et Schneider). Descriptions of these nematodes based on light and scanning electron microscopical studies are provided. The new species I. grandis sp. n. is mainly characterised by large body measurements (males and females up to 41.8 mm and 73.6 mm long, respectively), the length of spicules (0.99-1.05 mm), the tail tip usually without rudimentary spines and by the presence of 44-53 pairs of caudal papillae, eight to twelve of which being postanals. In addition to new data on the morphology of R. halieutaeae and other nematodes recorded, the 11 species of Raphidascaroides Yamaguti, 1941 poorly described from marine fishes in South Asia and reviewed in the monograph of Sood (2017) are considered species inquirendae and incertae sedis.

Keywords: Parasitic nematode, Philometra, taxonomy, teleost fish, Indian Ocean.

Received: November 25, 2021; Revised: April 1, 2022; Accepted: April 25, 2022; Published online: August 23, 2022  Show citation

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Moravec, F., Walter, T., & Yuniar, A.T. (2022). Description of Ichthyascaris grandis sp. n., redescription of Raphidascaroides halieutaeae Yin, 1983 and new records of some other raphidascaridid and philometrid nematodes from marine fishes off Java, Indonesia. Folia Parasitologica69, Article 2022.016. https://doi.org/10.14411/fp.2022.016
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