Philometrid nematodes infecting fishes from the Everglades National Park, Florida, USA, with description of two new species

0349072 - BC 2011 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Moravec, František - Bakenhaster, M.
Philometrid nematodes infecting fishes from the Everglades National Park, Florida, USA, with description of two new species.
Folia Parasitologica. Roč. 57, č. 3 (2010), s. 213-222. ISSN 0015-5683. E-ISSN 1803-6465
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LC522
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z60220518
Keywords : Philometridae * Marine fish * USA
Subject RIV: GJ - Animal Vermins ; Diseases, Veterinary Medicine
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The following three species of the Philometridae (Nematoda: Dracunculoidea) are described from marine perciform fishes of the Everglades National Park (northern Gulf of Mexico), Florida, USA: Philometra brevispicula sp. n. (male and females) from subcutaneous tissue of mouth of the gray snapper Lutjanus griseus (Linnaeus) (Lutjanidae), Philometroides grandipapillatus sp. n. (only females) from pectoral fin muscle of the crevalle jack Caranx hippos (Linnaeus) (Carangidae), and Caranginema americanum Moravec, Montoya-Mendoza et Salgado-Maldonado, 2008 (females) from the subcutaneous fascia of trunk muscle in crevalle jack C. hippos. Caranginema americanum is for the first time recorded from the region of the northern Gulf of Mexico
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