Abstract
A new species of digenean, Microphallus fonti, is described from the red swamp crawfish in Lousiania, U.S.A. It has a small pharynx and a rudimentary gut like M. opacus and a possibly related species from crayfishes, but it differs from them by its relatively large male copulatory papilla and a conspicuous metraterm.
Microphallus fonti; digenean; Procambarus clarkii; crayfish
Microphallus fonti sp. n. (Digenea: Microphaliidae) from the red swamp crawfish in southern United States
Robin M. Overstreet1
Richard W. Heard1
Jeffrey M. Lotz1
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Mississippi, USA
A new species of digenean, Microphallus fonti, is described from the red swamp crawfish in Lousiania, U.S.A. It has a small pharynx and a rudimentary gut like M. opacus and a possibly related species from crayfishes, but it differs from them by its relatively large male copulatory papilla and a conspicuous metraterm.
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Publication in this collection
15 June 2009 -
Date of issue
1992
