Echinoplectanum chauvetorum

Echinoplectanum chauvetorum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Monogenea
Order: Dactylogyridea
Family: Diplectanidae
Genus: Echinoplectanum
Species:
E. chauvetorum
Binomial name
Echinoplectanum chauvetorum
Justine & Euzet, 2006

Echinoplectanum chauvetorum is a species of diplectanid monogenean parasitic on the gills of the black-saddled coralgrouper, Plectropomus laevis. It has been described in 2006. [1]

Etymology

Justine & Euzet wrote that the species was named “for Professor Claude Chauvet, a specialist of grouper biology, and his wife Gisèle Chauvet, who kindly provided, among many other fish, several of the fish hosts used in this study”.[1]

Hosts and localities

The black-saddled coral grouper Plectropomus laevis is the host of Echinoplectanum chauvetorum

The black-saddled coral grouper Plectropomus laevis is the type-host of Echinoplectanum chauvetorum. The type-locality is the coral reef off Nouméa, New Caledonia.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Justine, Jean-Lou; Euzet, Louis (2006). "Diplectanids (Monogenea) parasitic on the gills of the coralgroupers Plectropomus laevis and P. leopardus (Perciformes, Serranidae) off New Caledonia, with the description of five new species and the erection of Echinoplectanum n. g." Systematic Parasitology. 64 (3): 147–172. doi:10.1007/s11230-006-9028-8. ISSN 0165-5752. PMID 16786281.