Dos especies nuevas de monogéneos (Diplectanidae) parásitos de peces marinos de la Laguna de La Restinga, Venezuela

TWO NEW SPECIES OF THE FAMILY DIPLECTANIDAE ARE DESCRIBED: DIPLECTANUM MAGNODISCATUM DIFFERS FROM OTHER MEMBERS OF THE GENUS IN SIZE OF THE SCAMODISC AND NUMBER OF CONCENTRIC ROWS OF DENTICLES (20 TO 21), STRUCTURE OF THE BARS, FORM OF THE SCLEROTIZED STRUCTURE OF THE VAGINA, AND FORM OF THE COPULATORY ORGAN. R. MARGARITAE DIFFERS FROM THE OTHER FIVE SPECIES OF THE GENUS IN THE FORM, NUMBER AND POSITION OF THE OPISTOHAPTOR SPINES, SHAPE OF THE COPULATORY ORGAN AND IN THE FACT THAT THE OVARY LOOPING SURROUNDS THE RIGHT INTESTINAL CRURA. A KEY FOR THE SPECIES OF RHAMNOCERCUS IS PROVIDED.

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Main Author: FUENTES ZAMBRANO, JOSÉ LUIS
Format: Digital revista
Language:spa
Published: Anales del Instituto de Biología serie Zoología 2009
Online Access:https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/zoo/article/view/7195
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