Haliotrematoides mediohamus ( 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 mediohamus ( Zhukov, 1983) n. comb.

Syn. Haliotrema mediohamus Zhukov, 1983 .

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

Site of infection: Gills.

Previous records (as Haliotrema mediohamus ): 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. However, it is transferred to Haliotrematoides as H. mediohamus ( Zhukov, 1983) n. comb. based on the comparative morphology of the haptoral sclerites and MCO. Differentiation of the species from its most similar congeners is provided in the remarks for H. mediohamides and H. prolixohamus .