Euryhaliotrema fastigatum ( Zhukov, 1976 ) Kritsky & Boeger, 2002

Kritsky, Delane C. & Boeger, Walter A., 2002, 41: New and previously described species of Dactylogyridae (Platyhelminthes) from the gills of marine and freshwater perciform fishes (Teleostei) with proposal of a new genus and a hypothesis on phylogeny, Zoosystema 24 (1), pp. 7-40 : 33

Euryhaliotrema fastigatum ( Zhukov, 1976) n. comb.

Haliotrema fastigatum Zhukov, 1976: 43 .

PREVIOUS RECORDS. — Lutjanus apodus (type host), Lutjanus jocu (Lutjanidae) : Havana (Gulf of Mexico) ( Zhukov 1976). According to Timofeeva (personal communication), the holotype of E. fastigatum n. comb. was collected from L. apodus .

REMARKS

Specimens of this species were not available for study. Our proposed new combination for Haliotrema fastigatum is based on details presented in the original description ( Zhukov 1976), where figures of the copulatory complex, haptoral armament and internal organs are consistent with the diagnosis of Euryhaliotrema n. gen. The original two drawings of the copulatory complex are contradictory regarding the direction of the two and a half rings of the copulatory organ ( Zhukov 1976: fig. 10). This species requires redescription in order to determine its phylogenetic position within Euryhaliotrema n. gen.