Rasheedia
Rasheedia is a genus of nematodes in the order Spirurida. The nematode genus Bulbocephalus Rasheed, 1966 [1] was found to be a homonym of Bulbocephalus Watson, 1916 (Apicomplexa, Stylocephalidae) and, therefore, a new name, Rasheedia n. nom., was proposed in 2018 to substitute it.[2]
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The genus was named in honour of Suraiya Rasheed, "a well-known Pakistani fish parasitologist who was the first to describe these interesting nematodes".[2]
Species of Rasheedia are parasite of fish and include:
- Rasheedia heptacanthi Moravec & Justine, 2018, a parasite of the Cinnabar goatfish Parupeneus heptacanthus (Mullidae) and Dentex fourmanoiri (Sparidae)
- Rasheedia novaecaledoniensis Moravec & Justine, 2018, a parasite of the Indian goatfish Parupeneus indicus (Mullidae)
- Rasheedia deblocki (Le-Van-Hoa, Pham-Ngoc-Khue & Nguyen-Thi-Lien, 1972) Moravec & Justine, 2018
- Rasheedia inglisi (Rasheed, 1966) Moravec & Justine, 2018 [1]
- Rasheedia pseudupenei (Vassiliadès & Diaw, 1978) Moravec & Justine, 2018
References
- Rasheed, Suraiya (1966). "On some interesting nematode parasites of fish from Pakistan". Parasitology. 56 (01): 151. doi:10.1017/S0031182000071171. ISSN 0031-1820.
- Moravec, František; Justine, Jean-Lou (2018). "Rasheedia n. nom. (Nematoda, Physalopteridae) for Bulbocephalus Rasheed, 1966 (a homonym of Bulbocephalus Watson, 1916), with description of Rasheedia heptacanthi n. sp. and R. novaecaledoniensis n. sp. from perciform fishes off New Caledonia". Parasite. 25: 39. doi:10.1051/parasite/2018033. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 6063723. PMID 30052500.
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