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Ergenstrema Labrosi sp.nov. (Monogenea) on The Gills of The Thick-Lipped Grey Mullet Chelon Labrosus at Plymouth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

M. Anderson*
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Comparative Physiology, University of Birmingham, P.O. Box 363, Birmingham
*
*Present address: The Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland.

Extract

Ergenstrema mugilis Paperna, 1964, the only member of the genus, has been collected in the Mediterranean from the gill rakers of the thin-lipped grey mullet Liza ramada (Risso, 1810) by Paperna (1964) and Lambert & Sanfilippo (1977); this parasite, under the name of ‘Dactylogyridea sp.’, was collected also from the same microhabitat of the same host from the coast of Albania by Ergens (1960). At Plymouth, parasites clearly belonging to the genus Ergenstrema have been collected from both the gill rakers and lamellae of a different host, the thick-lipped grey mullet Chelon labrosus (Risso, 1826).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1981

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