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A New Geographic Locality and Three New Host Records for Neobenedenia melleni (MacCallum) (Monogenea: Capsalidae)
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A new geographic locality record and three new host records for Neobenedenia melleni (MacCallum, 1921) (Monogenea: Capsalidae) are provided. Specimens of N. melleni were collected from the skin of three Florida pompano, Trachinotus carolinus (Linnaeus, 1166)(Carangidae),caught in the northern Gulf of Mexico off Horn Island, Mississippi; from the skin of a bluering angelfish, Pomacanthus annularis (Bloch, 1157) (Pomacanthidae), in the Shark Reef Aquarium at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, Nevada; from the skin of a rock greenling, Hexagrammos lagocephalus (Pallas, 1810) (Hexagrammidae), in the Alaska SeaLife Center, Seward, Alaska; and from the skin of two blue-barred ribbon gobies, Oxymetopon cyanoctenosum Klausewitz and Condé, 1981 (Microdesmidae), in a tropical fish clearinghouse in Hayward, California. This is the first published record of the parasite from a microdesmid or wild carangid. Prior to this report, no specimen of N. melleni had been reported from a wild-caught fish in the Gulf of Mexico. The presence of N. melleni in the Gulf of Mexico is particularly noteworthy because this monogenean is a known pathogen of cultured fishes in netpens and recirculating seawater systems.
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Bullard, S. A., R. J. Goldstein, R. Hocking and J. Jewell.
2003.
A New Geographic Locality and Three New Host Records for Neobenedenia melleni (MacCallum) (Monogenea: Capsalidae).
Gulf and Caribbean Research
15
(1):
1-4.
Retrieved from https://aquila.usm.edu/gcr/vol15/iss1/1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18785/gcr.1501.01
