Haliotrematoides parvicirrus ( Zhukov, 1983 ) Kritsky, Delane C., Tingbao, Yang & Yuan, Sun, 2009

Kritsky, Delane C., Tingbao, Yang & Yuan, Sun, 2009, Dactylogyrids (Monogenoidea, Polyonchoinea) parasitizing the gills of snappers (Perciformes, Lutjanidae): Proposal of Haliotrematoides n. gen. and descriptions of new and previously described species from marine fishes of the Red Sea, the eastern and Indo-west Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, Zootaxa 1970 (1970), pp. 1-51 : 48

Haliotrematoides parvicirrus ( Zhukov, 1983) n. comb.

Syn. Haliotrema parvicirrus Zhukov, 1983 .

Type host and locality: Calamus calamus (Val.) : Bay of Campeche (Gulf of Mexico) .

Site of infection: Gills.

Previous records (as Haliotrema parvicirrus ): Calamus calamus: Bay of Campeche (Gulf of Mexico) ( Zhukov, 1983). Calamus bojonado: Bay of Campeche (Gulf of Mexico) ( Zhukov, 1983).

Remarks: Specimens of this species were not available for study. It was originally placed in Haliotrema by Zhukov (1983), but is transferred to Haliotrematoides as H. parvicirrus ( Zhukov, 1983) n. comb. based on the comparative morphology of the haptoral and copulatory sclerites. Haliotrematoides parvicirrus most closely resembles H. guttati and H. heteracantha as suggested by the comparative morphology of the anchors. The latter two species differ from H. parvicirrus by having longer MCO’s, which lack a well-developed base (MCO with short shaft and large bell-shaped base in H. parvicirrus ).