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Six new species of bucephalid trematodes from the prosorhynchine bucephalid genera Prosorhynchus Odhner, 1905 and Neidhartia Nagaty, 1937 are reported from the epinepheline genera Cephalopholis, Cromileptes, Epinephelus and Variola on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Two species of Prosorhynchus and one of Neidhartia are reported from Epinephelus spp., P. jexi n. sp. from E. quoyanus, P. lafii n. sp. from E. fuscoguttatus and N. epinepheli n. sp. from E. maculatus. The other three new species are P. robertsthomsoni n. sp. from Cephalopholis argus, C. cyanostigma and C. miniata, P. conorjonesi n. sp. from Cromileptes altivelis, and P. milleri n. sp. from Variola louti. Extensive examinations of other piscivorous fish species from the Great Barrier Reef have not revealed these six bucephalid species, which appear to be restricted at least to the host genera from which they are reported here.
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The authors thank Dr Rob Adlard, Dr Rod Bray, Dr Matt Nolan, Ashley Roberts-Thomson, Jon Yantsch, Barton McKenzie, Dr Tim Lucas and Dr Conor Jones for field assistance. We would also like to thank Trudy Burge for all her assistance. We thank the staff of the Heron Island and the Lizard Island Research Stations. We are grateful to the staff of the H. W. Manter Laboratory for Parasitology Museum for lending us specimens.
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Bott, N.J., Cribb, T.H. Prosorhynchine trematodes (Digenea: Bucephalidae) from epinephelines (Perciformes: Serranidae) on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Syst Parasitol 72, 57–69 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-008-9160-8
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