Article
Dramatic phenotypic plasticity within species of Siphomutabilus n. g. (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae) from Indo-Pacific caesionines (Perciformes: Lutjanidae).
Systematic parasitology - 1 Oct 2013
Miller Terrence L, Cribb Thomas H
Abstract excerpt
A survey of Indo-Pacific lutjanids of the subfamily Caesioninae revealed the presence of Siphodera gurukun Machida, 1910 and two new cryptogonimid taxa from off Heron and Lizard Islands on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia and Rasdhoo Atoll, Maldives. A combined morphological and genetic characterisation of these species shows that they form a clade distinct from the type-species...
Topics
- Animals
- DNA, Ribosomal
- DNA, Ribosomal Spacer
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Perciformes
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Species Specificity
- Trematoda