Digenetic trematodes of Lebanese coast fishes: the species complexes Lepocreadium album (Stossich, 1890) and Lepocreadium pegorchis (Stossich, 1900) (Lepocreadiidae) (original) (raw)

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Trematodes belonging to the species Lepocreadium album (Stossich, 1890) and L. pegorchis (Stossich, 1900) were found in Spondyliosoma cantharus and Spicara smaris (their type-hosts, respectively) and other fishes in Lebanese waters. Morphometric variations in body-size, size and form of the pharynx, egg-size in relation to body-size, etc, according to host-species, are reported and commented upon. L. album obladae n. subsp. is erected for specimens from Oblada melanura.

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1. Laboratory of Marine Biology, B.P. 906, Jounieh, Lebanon
   Amale Saad Fares
2. Laboratoire de Parasitologie Comparée, U.S.T.L., place E. Bataillon, 34095, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
   Claude Maillard

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2. Claude Maillard

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Fares, A.S., Maillard, C. Digenetic trematodes of Lebanese coast fishes: the species complexes Lepocreadium album (Stossich, 1890) and Lepocreadium pegorchis (Stossich, 1900) (Lepocreadiidae).Syst Parasitol 17, 87–95 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00009795

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• Accepted: 23 November 1989
• Issue date: October 1990
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00009795

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