| resurrection of mycteronastes (monogenoidea: monocotylidae), with description of mycteronastes caalusi n. sp. from olfactory sacs of the smalltooth sawfish, pristis pectinata (pristiformes: pristidae), in the gulf of mexico off florida. | mycteronastes kearn and beverley-burton, 1990 (monogenoidea: monocotylidae: merizocotylinae) was resurrected from subjective synonymy with merizocotyle cerfontaine, 1894 , and its diagnosis was emended to include monocotylids with a haptor lacking a central loculus and having 5 peripheral (2 bilateral pairs and an unpaired anteromedial loculus), 1 interhamular, and 17 marginal loculi. the 3 species of mycteronastes accepted herein are parasitic within the olfactory sacs of rays and sawfishes: my ... | 2017 | 28589784 |