| a description of lecithocladium angustiovum (digenea: hemiuridae) in short mackerel, rastrelliger brachysoma (scombridae), of indonesia. | lecithocladium angustiovum is identified from the stomach (87.33%) and the intestine (12.67%) of indonesian short mackerel (rastrelliger brachysoma). the description includes an elongated body; a mean total length of 1018.84 µm; and an ecsoma of 47.52% of the total length. the oral and ventral sucker ratio is 1:0.63, and the pharynx length is 97.42 µm. the sequence results were obtained by 18s rdna gene sequencing of the 354 basepair (bp) dna segment, and the mean base composition (%) was 17.7 a ... | 2015 | 26868591 |
| molecular characterization and new geographical record of lecithochirium priacanthi (digenea: hemiuridae) infecting the moontail bullseye fish priacanthus hamrur (perciformes: priacanthidae) from the red sea, egypt. | sixty specimens of the moontail bullseye priacanthus hamrur were collected at coasts of suez gulf, red sea (egypt) during the four different seasons of the whole year 2014 and necropsied to study the infection with metazoan parasites. twenty-one out of 60 examined fish specimens (infection rate of 33.33 %) were found to be naturally infected by the hemiurid digenean parasite lecithochirium priacanthi. the large-sized fish reaching 15-30 (23.5 ± 4.8) cm were more intensively infected than the sma ... | 2015 | 26334518 |