Abstract
Stephanostomum kovalevae Parukhin, 1968 from the intestine of Lophius vomerinus off Swakopmund, Namibia, is redescribed. It is characterised by its large number (c.73-88) of circum-oral spines, its relatively very long hindbody and the vitellarium reaching close to or just overlapping the ventral sucker. S. beukelaardori n. sp., from the intestine of Zenopsis conchifera off Walvis Bay, Namibia, is described. It belongs to the group of species where the vitellarium reaches the ventral sucker, and which has c.32-38 circum-oral spines. It is closest to S. casum (Linton, 1910), but differs in lacking the lining of prominent spines in the ejaculatory duct, probably in egg-size and in both forebody and hindbody lengths.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Bartoli, P. & Bray, R.A. (2001) Contribution to the knowledge of species of the genus StephanostomumLooss, 1899 (Digenea: Acanthocolpidae) from teleosts of the Western Mediterranean, with the description of S. gaidropsarin. sp. Systematic Parasitology, 49, 159-188.
Bartoli, P. & Bray, R.A. (2004) Four species of Stephanostomum Looss, 1899 (Digenea: Acanthocolpidae) from Seriola dumerili (Risso) (Teleostei: Carangidae) in the western Mediterranean. including S. euzeti n. sp. Systematic Parasitology, in press
Bray, R.A. & Cribb, T.H. (2003) Species of StephanostomumLooss, 1899 (Digenea: Acanthocolpidae) from fishes of Australian and South Pacific waters, including five new species. Systematic Parasitology, 55, 159-197.
Caruso, J.H. (1988) Family No. 101: Lophiidae. In: Smith, M.M. & Heemstra, P.C. (Eds) Smiths' sea fishes. Grahamstown: Southern Book Publishers, pp. 363-366.
Demke, D.O. (1952) Staining and mounting helminths. Stain Technology, 27, 135.
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (2003) FishBase:WorldWideWeb electronic publication. www.fishbase.org.
Hafeezullah, M. (1971) On some new and known digenetic trematodes from marine fishes of India. Journal of Helminthology, 45, 73-88.
Heemstra, P.C. (1995) Additions and corrections for the 1995 impression. In: Smith, M.M. & Heemstra, P.C. (Eds) Smiths' sea fishes(revised edition). Grahamstown: Southern Book Publishers, pp. v-xv.
Korotaeva, V.D. (1982) The fauna of trematodes in fishes of the order Zeiformes. Parazitologiya, 16, 464-468. (In Russian).
Leslie, R.W. & Grant, W.S. (1991) Redescription of the southern African anglerfish Lophius vomerinusValenciennes, 1837 (Lophiiformes: Lophiidae). Copeia, (3), 787-800.
Linton, E. (1910) Helminth fauna of the dry Tortugas. II. Trematodes. Papers from the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, 4, 11-98.
Madhavi, R. (1976) Digenetic trematodes from marine fishes of Waltair Coast, Bay of Bengal. Family Acanthocolpidae. Rivista di Parassitologia, 37, 115-128.
Manter, H.W. (1940) Digenetic trematodes of fishes from the Galapagos Islands and the neighboring Pacific. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 2, 325-497.
Manter, H.W. (1947) The digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Tortugas, Florida. American Midland Naturalist, 38, 257-416.
Nahhas, F.M. & Cable, R.M. (1964) Digenetic and aspidogastrid trematodes from marine fishes of Curaçao and Jamaica. Tulane Studies in Zoology, 11, 169-228.
Nicoll, W. (1914) The trematode parasites of fishes from the English Channel. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 10, 466-505.
Parukhin, A.M. (1966) [On the species composition of the helminth fauna of fishes in the South Atlantic]. Materialy Nauchnoi Konferentsii Vsesoyuznogo Obshchestva Gel'mintologov, pp. 219-222. (In Russian).
Parukhin, A.M. (1968) [New Trematoda representatives of the family Acanthocolpidae Lühe, 1909 in the food-fish of the South Atlantic]. Vestnik Zoologii, 1968(2), 79-82. (In Russian).
Parukhin, A.M. (1976) [Trematodes of fish in the Indian Ocean]. Biologiya Morya, Kiev, 38, 76-84 (In Russian).
Parukhin, A.M. (1978) On studies in trematodofauna of the Indian and Atlantic Ocean fishes. Biologiya Morya, Kiev, 45, 90-99. (In Russian).
Parukhin, A.M. (1989) [Parasitic worms of bottom fishes of the southern seas.] Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 155 pp. (In Russian).
Pratt, H.S. (1916) The trematode genus StephanochasmusLooss in the Gulf of Mexico. Parasitology, 8, 229-238.
Reimer, L.W. (1993) Parasites of Merluccius capensis and M. paradoxus from the coast of Namibia. Applied Parasitology, 34, 143-150.
Saoud, M.F.A., Nahhas, F.M., Al Kuwari, K.S.R. & Ramadan, M.M. (2002) Helminth parasites of fishes from the Arabian Gulf: 10. Trematodes of the genus StephanostomumLooss, 1899 (Digenea: Acanthocolpidae Lühe, 1901), with description of Stephanostomum qatarensen. sp. and redescription of Stephanostomum triacanthiMadhavi, 1976. Rivista di Parassitologia, 29(63),87-103.
Schroeder, R.E. (1970) Ecology of the intestinal trematodes of the gray snapper, Lutjanus griseus, near lower Matecumbe Key, Florida, with a description of a new species. Studies in Tropical Oceanography, 10, 151-224.
Shen J.-w. & Qiu Z.-z. (1995) Studies on the trematodes of fishes from the Yellow Sea and the Bo Hai Sea. Beijing: Science Press, 207 pp. (In Chinese).
Siddiqi, A.H. & Cable, R.M. (1960) Digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Puerto Rico. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, 17, 257-369.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Bray, R.A., Reimer, L.W. Two Species of Stephanostomum Looss, 1899 (Digenea: Acanthocolpidae) from Marine Fishes off Namibia, Including S. Beukelaardori n. sp.. Syst Parasitol 58, 209–216 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:SYPA.0000032931.23060.d3
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/B:SYPA.0000032931.23060.d3