Echinoplectanum_laeve

<i>Echinoplectanum laeve</i>

Echinoplectanum laeve

Species of flatworm

Echinoplectanum laeve is a species of diplectanid monogenean parasitic on the gills of the black-saddled coralgrouper, Plectropomus laevis. It has been described in 2006. [1] E. laeve is the type-species of the genus Echinoplectanum.

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Etymology

Echinoplectanum laeve was named for the species of its type-host, Plectropomus laevis. Justine & Euzet also indicated that “the epithet laeve (Latin for smooth) was not inappropriate for a diplectanid without tegumental body scales”.[1]

Hosts and localities

The black-saddled coral grouper Plectropomus laevis is the host of Echinoplectanum laeve

The black-saddled coral grouper Plectropomus laevis is the type-host of Echinoplectanum laeve. The type-locality is the coral reef off Nouméa, New Caledonia.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Justine, Jean-Lou; Euzet, Louis (2006). "Diplectanids (Monogenea) parasitic on the gills of the coralgroupers Plectropomus laevis and P. leopardus (Perciformes, Serranidae) off New Caledonia, with the description of five new species and the erection of Echinoplectanum n. g." Systematic Parasitology. 64 (3): 147–172. doi:10.1007/s11230-006-9028-8. ISSN 0165-5752. PMID 16786281.
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