| philometrid nematodes (philometridae) from marine fishes off the northern coast of australia, including three new species. | based on light and scanning electron microscopical studies, the following nine species of philometridae (nemaoda: dracunculoidea) are described from female worms parasitizing marine perciform fishes belonging to six families off the northern coast australia (near darwin): philometra australiensis sp. n. from the swimbladder of the king threadfin polydactylus macrochir (günther) (polynemidae); p. epinepheli dewi et palm, 2013 from the operculum of the orange-spotted grouper epinephelus coioides ( ... | 2014 | 24684052 |
| a new acanthocephalan family, the isthmosacanthidae (acanthocephala: echinorhynchida), with the description of isthmosacanthus fitzroyensis n. g., n. sp. from threadfin fishes (polynemidae) of northern australia. | isthmosacanthus fitzroyensis n. g., n. sp. is described from two species of protandrous fish, eleutheronema tetradactylum (shaw) and polydactylus macrochir (günther), from the waters around the coast of northern australian. the new species can be distinguished from all others by the following combination of characters: proboscis shape and armature (22 rows of 13-14 hooks), short neck, trunk spined anteriorly and having two swellings (one bulbous) with a narrow isthmus in between, long tubular le ... | 2012 | 22581246 |