Species of Stephanostomum Looss, 1899 (Digenea : Acanthocolpidae) from fishes of Australian and South Pacific waters, including five new species

• Main Authors: Bray, R. A., Cribb, T. H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Kluwer Academic 2003
• Subjects: Parasitology; Marine Fishes; Lepocreadiidae Digenea; Helminth-parasites; Opechona Looss; Red Sea; Trematodes; Metacercariae; Manter; Linton; Fauna; 270501 Animal Systematics; Taxonomy and Phylogeny; C1; 780105 Biological sciences; Heron Island; Hope Island; Pacific; Queensland; Hope island
• Online Access: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:64734

Nine species of Stephanostomum are described from Australian and Southern Pacific marine fishes: Stephanostomum madhaviae n. sp. [syn. S. orientalis of Madhavi ( 1976)] from Caranx ignobilis, off Hope Island, Queensland, with 30-34 circum-oral spines and vitelline fields almost reaching to the posterior extremity of the cirrus-sac; S. bicoronatum (Stossich, 1883) from Argyrosomus hololepidotus, off Southport Broadwater, Queensland; S. votonimoli n. sp. from Scomberoides lysan, off Moorea, French Polynesia ( type-locality) and Western Samoa, with 33-38 circum-oral spines, a uroproct and the vitelline fields not reaching the cirrus-sac; S. nyoomwa n. sp. from Caranx sexfasciatus, off Heron Island, Queensland, with 33-38 circum-oral spines, a uroproct and the vitelline fields reaching the cirrus-sac; S. cobia n. sp. from Rachycentron canadum, off Heron Island, with 36 circum-oral spines, a uroproct and the vitelline fields reaching the cirrus-sac; S. petimba Yamaguti, 1970 from Seriola hippos, off Rottnest Island, Western Australia; S. pacificum ( Yamaguti, 1951) from Pseudocaranx wrighti, off Fremantle, Western Australia; S. aaravi n. sp. from Lethrinus miniatus, off Heron Island, with 36-39 circumoral spines, probably a uroproct and the vitelline fields reaching the ventral sucker; S. pagrosomi ( Yamaguti, 1939) from L. nebulosus, L. miniatus and L. atkinsoni off Heron Island, Pagrus auratus, off Rottnest Island, Western Australia and Gymnocranius audleyi, off Heron Island. A digest of described species of Stephanostomum is included as an appendix.