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Published: 2007-07-12
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Homalometron moraveci n. sp. (Digenea: Apocreadiidae) in the yellowfin goatfish, Mulloidichthys vanicolensis (Valenciennes, 1831) (Perciformes: Mullidae), from New Caledonia and the Great Barrier Reef, with a checklist of digeneans of  Mulloidichthys species

Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Équipe Biogéographie Marine Tropicale, Unité Systématique, Adaptation, Évolution (CNRS, UPMC, MNHN, IRD), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, BP A5, 98848 Nouméa Cedex, Nouvelle-Calédonie
Centre for Marine Studies and Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Digenea Apocreadiidae Homalometron moraveci n. sp. Mullidae Mulloidichthys New Caledonia Great Barrier Reef

Abstract

Homalometron moraveci n. sp. is described from the yellowfin goatfish, Mulloidichthys vanicolensis, from the waters off New Caledonia and from the Swain Reefs of the Great Barrier Reef. Its unique combination of narrow, elongate body and long hermaphroditic duct reaching well into the hindbody, distinguish this species from all other species of Homalometron. A checklist of species of digeneans reported in species of Mulloidichthys shows that most of the records are of members of the Opecoelidae and this is the first record of an apocreadiid from this host genus.

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