Rasheedia heptacanthi

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Rasheedia heptacanthi
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Rasheedia heptacanthi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Rhabditida
Family: Physalopteridae
Genus: Rasheedia
Species:
R. heptacanthi
Binomial name
Rasheedia heptacanthi
Moravec & Justine, 2018

Rasheedia heptacanthi is a parasitic nematode in the genus Rasheedia . [1]

The species is an intestinal parasite of the Cinnabar goatfish Parupeneus heptacanthus (Mullidae) and Dentex fourmanoiri (Sparidae) off New Caledonia. [1]

The two species Rasheedia heptacanthi and Rasheedia novaecaledoniensis , which both occur in New Caledonian waters, are mainly differentiated by the number of anterior protrusible oesophageal lobes (two in R. heptacanthi and four in R. novaecaledoniensis), structure of the oesophagus and the lengths of their spicules. [1]

Gallery: scanning electron microscopy of Rasheedia heptacanthi

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Moravec, František; Justine, Jean-Lou (2018). "Rasheedia n. nom. (Nematoda, Physalopteridae) for Bulbocephalus Rasheed, 1966 (a homonym of Bulbocephalus Watson, 1916), with description of Rasheedia heptacanthi n. sp. and R. novaecaledoniensis n. sp. from perciform fishes off New Caledonia". Parasite. 25: 39. doi:10.1051/parasite/2018033. ISSN   1776-1042. PMC   6063723 . PMID   30052500. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg