Biology:Rasheedia

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Short description: Genus of roundworms

Rasheedia
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Rasheedia heptacanthi
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Rasheedia

Moravec & Justine, 2018

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]

The genus was named in honour of Suraiya Rasheed, "a well-known Pakistan i 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

Wikidata ☰ Q56010381 entry