| philometra spicarae sp. n. (nematoda: philometridae) from the abdominal cavity of the marine fish (picarel) spicara smaris (centracanthidae) off sicily, italy. | a new nematode species, philometra spicarae sp. n. (philometridae), is described from a gravid female found in the abdominal cavity of spicarel, spicara smaris (linnaeus) (centracanthidae, perciformes), from the ionian sea off sicily, italy. the new species differs from most other philometra spp. parasitic in the abdominal cavity of marine fishes by the oesophagus without an anterior inflation, resembling thus only philometra cheilopogoni mordvinova, 1986 and philometra justinei moravec, terneng ... | 2010 | 20428890 |