Pseudopecoeloides Yamaguti 1940

• Main Authors: Aken'Ova, Thelma, Cribb, Thomas, Bray, Rodney
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Platyhelminthes; Trematoda; Plagiorchiida; Opecoelidae; Pseudopecoeloides; Turbot
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3792598; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F887A4DB32FFB6FF19D128FC4473D4

Genus Pseudopecoeloides Yamaguti, 1940 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: B8D615C7-F0AD-4E84-BF2C-64F7BEA66682 Species of Pseudopecoeloides can be divided into two morphological groups based on their sucker ratios, as follows: Group A. Species with the oral sucker larger than the ventral sucker: P. tenuis Yamaguti, 1940 from Priacanthidae and Carangidae, in the Indo-West Pacific Region and Great Australian Bight; P. tenuoides Martin, 1960 from Priacanthidae and Acanthuridae, off Hawaii; P. boops Yamaguti, 1970 from Priacanthidae and Champsodontidae, off Hawaii and Mozambique; P. opelu Yamaguti, 1970 from the mackerel scad Decapterus macarellus (Cuvier), Carangidae, off Hawaii; P. parviacetabulus Yamaguti, 1970 from the bigeye scad Selar crumenophthalmus (Bloch), Carangidae, off Hawaii; P. wekeula Yamaguti, 1970 from Mullidae and Chaetodontidae, off Hawaii and the Seychelles; P. chloroscombri (Fischthal & Thomas, 1970) Bartoli, Gibson & Bray, 2003 from the Atlantic bumper Chloroscombrus chrysurus Girard and horse mackerels Trachurus spp., Carangidae, Western Mediterranean Sea, eastern Atlantic Ocean; P. orientalis Gupta & Ahmad, 1978 from the longbarbel goatfish Parupeneus macronemus (Lacepède), Mullidae, Bay of Bengal; P . puriensis Ahmad, 1978 from Parupeneus macronemus , Mullidae, Bay of Bengal; P. psettodi Parukhin, 1983 from the Indian spiny turbot Psettodes erumei (Bloch & Schneider), Psettodidae, Mozambique Channel; and P. astrocongeneris Shen, 1989 from the whitespotted conger Conger myriaster (Brevoort), Congridae, East China Sea; P. dayawanensis Shen & Tong, 1990 from the Malabar trevally Carangoides malabaricus (Bloch & Schneider), Carangidae, South China Sea; and P. capucini Toman, 1992 from Pseudupeneus sp., Mullidae, off Seychelles. Group B. Species with the oral sucker the same size as or smaller than the ventral sucker: P. carangis (Yamaguti, 1938) mainly from Carangidae, but also recorded in Champsodontidae, Gempylidae, Mullidae, Polynemidae, Sciaenidae and Sphyraenidae, widespread ...