Teraplectanum

Teraplectanum is a genus of monopisthocotylean monogeneans, belonging to the family Diplectanidae.[1][2] All species of the genus are parasitic on the gills of fish in the family Teraponidae.

Teraplectanum
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Teraplectanum

Lim, 2015
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Susan Lim (2015) described the genus on the basis of the arrangement of the copulatory apparatus and wrote: "in species of Teraplectanum, spermatozoa stored in the seminal vesicle and secretions stored in the prostatic reservoir are transferred into, and mixed to form semen within, a special sclerotized auxiliary piece".[1]

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species,[2] the following species are included in the genus:

  • Teraplectanum angustitubus Lim, 2015 [1]
  • Teraplectanum crassitubus Lim, 2015 [1] (Type-species)
  • Teraplectanum undulicirrosum (Zhang, Liu, Ding & Chen, 2000) Lim, 2015 [3]
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References

  1. Lim, L.H.S. (2015). "Teraplectanum n. g. (Monogenea: Diplectanidae) from the banded grunter fish, Terapon theraps Cuvier (Perciformes: Terapontidae), off Peninsular Malaysia". Journal of Helminthology. 89 (03): 307–316. doi:10.1017/S0022149X1400008X. ISSN 0022-149X. PMID 24698519.
  2. WoRMS (2018). Teraplectanum Lim, 2015. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=766288 on 2018-12-26
  3. Zhang, J.-Y.; Liu, L.; Ding, X.-J.; Chen, Z.-B. (2000). "Monogenea of Chinese Marine Fishes. XI. Two new species of the genus Diplectanum Diesing, 1858". Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica. 24: 236–240.
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