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Six New Host Records And An Updated List Of Wild Hosts For Neobenedenia Melleni (Maccallum) (Monogenea: Capsalidae), Stephen A. Bullard, George W. Benz, Robin M. Overstreet, Ernest H. Williams Jr., Jay Hemdal
Six New Host Records And An Updated List Of Wild Hosts For Neobenedenia Melleni (Maccallum) (Monogenea: Capsalidae), Stephen A. Bullard, George W. Benz, Robin M. Overstreet, Ernest H. Williams Jr., Jay Hemdal
Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty and Staff Publications
Six new host records and an updated list of wild hosts for Neobenedenia melleni (MacCallum) (Monogenea: Capsalidae) are provided. We report specimens of N. melleni from the skin of a whitefin sharksucker (Echeneis neucratoides Zuieuw [Echeneidae]) caught off Mayagüez, Puerto Rico; from the skin of a mosquitofish (Gambusia xanthosoma Greenfield [Poeciliidae)) caught in Little Salt Creek, Grand Cayman Island, British West Indies; from a freshwater immersion bath of red grouper (Epinephelus morio (Valenciennes) [Serranidae] caught in the Gulf of Mexico off Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.; from the skin of a garden eel (Heteroconger hassi (Klausewitz and Eibl-Eibesfeldt) …