English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Parasite biodiversity of fish in coral reefs of the South China Sea is still incompletely explored. We describe here a new species of  Neohexostoma  (Monogenea: Hexostomatidae) from the gill filaments of the dogtooth tuna  Gymnosarda unicolor  (Scombridae), collected off Yongshu Reef, South China Sea.  Neohexostoma gymnosardae  n. sp. is distinguished from its congeners by the following features: (i) haptor clearly marked from body proper by a strongly constricted peduncle, divided in its posterior margin into two symmetrical lobes, (ii) vagina armed with scattered small blunt spines, (iii) eggs tied by their long polar filaments, (vi) esophagus with several lateral diverticula, (v) intestinal ceca unfused and extending into the haptor. We present an analysis of the relationships of this monogenean based on partial 28S rDNA sequences. An identification key for species of  Neohexostoma  is provided. This is the first member of the genus  Neohexostoma  known to parasitize a species of  Gymnosarda .

parasite

<i>Neohexostoma gymnosardae</i>n. sp. (Monogenea, Hexostomatidae), a gill parasite of<i>Gymnosarda unicolor</i>(Valenciennes) (Teleostei, Scombridae) in the South China Sea

Neohexostoma gymnosardaen. sp. (Monogenea, Hexostomatidae), a gill parasite ofGymnosarda unicolor(Valenciennes) (Teleostei, Scombridae) in the South China Sea