WoRMS source details
Al-Jahdali, M.O. (2013). New intestinal trematodes from siganid fishes off the Saudi coast of the Red Sea. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 59(1), 3-12.
172752
Al-Jahdali, M. O.
2013
New intestinal trematodes from siganid fishes off the Saudi coast of the Red Sea
Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
59(1): 3-12
Publication
Available for editors [request]
In small samples of the siganid fishes Siganus rivulatus Forsskål et Niebuhr and S. luridus
Rüppel (Teleostei) from off the Saudi coast of the Red Sea, some individuals of each fish
were found infected with a new intestinal trematode. Those of S. rivulatus were infected
with Hexangium saudii sp. n. (Trematoda: Microscaphidiidae), whereas those of S. luridus
with Progyliauchen magnacetabulum sp. n. (Trematoda: Gyliauchenidae). Hexangium saudii
sp. n. differs clearly from the two valid species of the genus, H. sigani Goto et Ozaki, 1929
(type- species) and H. brayi Hassanine et Gibson, 2005 in many specific characters and is
unique in having vitelline follicles arranged in rosette-like groups and short intestinal caeca
distant from the testes. Progyliauchen magnacetabulum sp. n. differs clearly from P. sigani Shalaby
et Hassanine, 1997, the type and the only species of the genus in many specific characters
and is unique in having a much larger ventral sucker, a very long oesophagus (longer
than the total body length), a much larger oesophageal bulb and a tubular seminal vesicle.
Date
action
by
Hexangium saudii Al-Jahdali, 2013 (original description)
Progyliauchen magnacetabulum Al-Jahdali, 2013 (original description)
Progyliauchen magnacetabulum Al-Jahdali, 2013 (original description)
Red Sea for Hexangium saudii Al-Jahdali, 2013
Red Sea for Progyliauchen magnacetabulum Al-Jahdali, 2013
Red Sea for Progyliauchen magnacetabulum Al-Jahdali, 2013