Lagenivaginopseudobenedenia

Lagenivaginopseudobenedenia
3 Lagenivaginopseudobenedenia sp. on the gill of a deepwater longtail red snapper
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Monogenea
Subclass: Monopisthocotylea
Family: Capsalidae
Genus: Lagenivaginopseudobenedenia
Yamaguti, 1966

Lagenivaginopseudobenedenia is a genus of monopisthocotylean monogenean, included in the family Capsalidae.[1] The type-species of the genus is Lagenivaginopseudobenedenia etelis Yamaguti, 1966.[2] The genus includes only 2 species, which are both parasitic on the gills of marine fish of the family Lutjanidae.

Morphology

Species of the genus Lagenivaginopseudobenedenia are, like most monogeneans of the family Capsalidae, flat with a posterior disc-shaped haptor which attaches to the gill of their host. Their distinctive feature is a “vagina lageniform, between uterus and right intestinal limb, opening almost midventrally behind cirrus pouch”.[2]

Etymology and curiosity of zoological nomenclature

The etymology of this extremely long name involves three steps:

Lagenivaginopseudobenedenia, with 27 letters and 17 syllables, is possibly the longest valid generic name of the zoological nomenclature for a non-fossil organism.[1][5]

Hosts

Deep-sea fish of the genus Etelis are host of species of Lagenivaginopseudobenedenia

Hosts of species of monogeneans of the genus Lagenivaginopseudobenedenia are parasitic on fish which are members of the genus Etelis (family Lutjanidae), found in deep-sea in the Pacific Ocean.

Species

Only two species are currently known in this genus.

References

  1. 1 2 Whittington, I. D. 2004: The Capsalidae (Monogenea: Monopisthocotylea): a review of diversity, classification and phylogeny with a note about species complexes. Folia Parasitologica, 51, 109-122. PDF
  2. 1 2 3 Yamaguti S. 1966. New monogenetic trematodes from Hawaiian fishes, II. Pacific Science 20(4): 419-434. PDF
  3. Johnston, T. Harvey (1931). "New Trematodes from the Subantarctic and Antarctic". Australian Journal of Experimental Biology and Medical Science. 8 (2): 91–98. doi:10.1038/icb.1931.7. ISSN 0818-9641. PDF
  4. Karl Moriz Diesing, 1858. Revision der Myzhelminthen. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Wien: K.-K. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei in Commission bei Karl Gerold's Sohn. BHL PDF
  5. Mark Isaak. "Wordplay: Long and Short Names". Curiosity of Zoological Nomenclature.
  6. Justine, JL.; Beveridge, I.; Boxshall, GA.; Bray, RA.; Miller, TL.; Moravec, F.; Trilles, JP.; Whittington, ID. (2012). "An annotated list of fish parasites (Isopoda, Copepoda, Monogenea, Digenea, Cestoda, Nematoda) collected from Snappers and Bream (Lutjanidae, Nemipteridae, Caesionidae) in New Caledonia confirms high parasite biodiversity on coral reef fish.". Aquatic Biosystems. 8 (1): 22. doi:10.1186/2046-9063-8-22. PMC 3507714Freely accessible. PMID 22947621.
  7. Timofeeva, T. A. (1995). "New species of the genera Pseudallobenedenia Yamaguti, 1966 and Lagenivaginopseudobenedenia Yamaguti, 1966 (Monogenea: Capsalidae) in the Indo-Pacific". Systematic Parasitology. 32 (1): 71–77. doi:10.1007/BF00009469. ISSN 0165-5752.
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