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ABSONIFIBULA ESTUARINA SP. N. (MONOGENEA: DICLIDOPHORIDAE) PARASITE OF JUVENILE CYNOSCION GUATUCUPA (OSTEICHTHYES) FROM SOUTHWESTERN ATLANTIC OCEAN
Monogenea
Cynoscion guatucupa
Estuários
Argentina
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Avaliação e Promoção da Saúde Ambiental. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil.
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata - CONICET. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas e Naturales. Laboratorio de Parasitología, Departamento de Biología. Mar del Plata. Argentina..
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata - CONICET. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas e Naturales. Laboratorio de Parasitología, Departamento de Biología. Mar del Plata. Argentina..
Abstract
Absonifibula estuarina sp. n. (Diclidophoridae, Absonifibulinae), is described from the gills of juvenile striped weakfish, Cynoscion guatucupa (Cuvier), from the southwestern Atlantic, Argentinean coast. This marine fish migrates to estuarine areas to spawn where exclusively juveniles are found parasitized; adult fish in marine water were never found to be parasitized by this monogenean. A. estuarina sp. n. is characterized mainly by the pedunculate clamps dissimilar in size, the shape of anterior jaw with sclerite ‘a’ attached to a sub-trapezoidal lamellate extension and fused to sclerites ‘c’ and ‘d’. It differs from Absonifibula bychowskyi Lawler & Overstreet, 1976, the only known species of the genus, in the shape and arrangement of the genital corona, which is armed with six similar hooks disposed in circle and the sub-trapezoidal shape of lamellate extension (‘b’). The restriction to juvenile sciaenids is a shared feature among the Absonifibulinae indicating an estuary-dependent life cycle.
Keywords in Portuguese
Absonifibula estuarina sp. nMonogenea
Cynoscion guatucupa
Estuários
Argentina
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