| new species of metacaligus (caligidae, copepoda) parasitic on the cutlassfish (trichiurus lepturus) of taiwan, with a cladistic analysis of the family caligidae. | metacaligus latus n. sp. (copepoda, caligidae) is described from specimens found parasitic in the oral and gill cavities of the cutlassfish, trichiurus lepturus linnaeus, caught from the strait of taiwan and landed at dong-shih fishing port in chiayi county, taiwan. it is close to m. uruguayensis (thomsen, 1949), but can be distinguished from the latter by the possession of shorter caudal rami in both sexes and wider cephalothorax and genital complex in the male. cladistic (phylogenetic) analysi ... | 2002 | 12520096 |
| parasitic helminth fauna of the cutlass fish, trichiurus lepturus l., and the differentiation of four anisakid nematode third-stage larvae by nuclear ribosomal dna sequences. | the helminth fauna of the gastrointestinal tract and abdominal cavity of cutlass fish, trichiurus lepturus l., off the taiwanese coast of the north-western pacific was investigated. the following helminths were found: (1) nematodes--anisakis simplex, hysterothylacium aduncum, porrocaecum decipiens, raphidascaris trichiuri; (2) digeneans--adult lecithochirium trichiuri; and (3) cestodes-plerocercoids of proteocephalus spp. the third-stage larvae of these four anisakid nematodes were characterized ... | 2004 | 15133659 |