Two species of acanthocephala from Australian fishes with description of Arhythmacanthus paraplagusiarum sp. n
Nickol, B.B.
Journal of Parasitology 58(4): 778-780
1972
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-3395 PMID: 5057230 Document Number: 50572
Two Hemirhamphus melanochir collected near Adelaide, South Australia, harboured Micracanthorhynchina hemirhamphi. Arhythmacanthus paraplagusiarum n.sp. (10 specimens) from Paraplagusia guttata from Moreton Bay, Brisbane, is characterized by the length of the enlarged subapical proboscis hooks which are 120 to 132 mu long in females and 113 to 120 mu long in males. The hooks are 188 to 210 mu and 60 mu long in A. fusiformis and A. septacanthus, respectively. Males of the new species have proboscides 182 to 206 mu long compared with 340 to 430 mu long in A. fusiformis.