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Revision of Neolebouria Gibson, 1976 (Digenea: Opecoelidae), with Trilobovarium n. g., for species infecting tropical and subtropical shallow-water fishes

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A new opecoelid trematode is reported from fishes of the Lethrinidae, Lutjanidae and Nemipteridae off Lizard Island on the northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. The new species keys to Neolebouria Gibson, 1976 and shows strong similarity to several species of that genus, but is not consistent with the type-species, N. georgiensis Gibson, 1976, or others known from temperate/polar and/or deep-sea fishes. The new species is also phylogenetically distant from N. lanceolata (Price, 1934) Reimer, 1987, the only representative of the genus for which molecular data are available. A new genus, Trilobovarium n. g., is proposed for the new species, T. parvvatis n. sp. Eight morphologically similar species, previously recognised as belonging to Neolebouria, from shallow-water, mostly tropical/subtropical fishes, are transferred to Trilobovarium: T. diacopae (Nagaty & Abdel Aal, 1962) n. comb.; T. ira (Yamaguti, 1940) n. comb.; T. khalili (Ramadan, 1983) n. comb.; T. krusadaiense (Gupta, 1956) n. comb.; T. lineatum (Aken’Ova & Cribb, 2001) n. comb.; T. moretonense (Aken’Ova & Cribb, 2001) n. comb.; T. palauense (Machida, 2014) n. comb.; and T. truncatum (Linton, 1940) n. comb. Paramanteriella Li, Qiu & Zhang, 1988 is resurrected for five species of Neolebouria with a post-bifurcal genital pore: P. cantherini Li, Qiu & Zhang, 1988; P. capoori (Jaiswal, Upadhyay, Malhotra, Dronen & Malhotra, 2014) n. comb.; P. confusa (Overstreet, 1969) n. comb.; P. leiperi (Gupta, 1956) n. comb.; and P. pallenisca (Shipley & Hornell, 1905) n. comb. Neolebouria georgenascimentoi Bray, 2002, a species with an exceptionally long cirrus-sac, is transferred to Bentholebouria Andres, Pulis & Overstreet, 2004 as B. georgenascimentoi (Bray, 2002) n. comb., and N. maorum (Allison, 1966) Gibson 1976, an unusual species known from cephalopods, is designated a species incertae sedis. Eleven species are retained in a revised concept of Neolebouria.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Lizard Island Research Station directors, Dr Anne Hoggett and Dr Lyle Vail, and staff for their continued support enabling field collecting; our colleagues, Daniel Huston, Russell’ Yong and Dr Derek Sun and his team for assistance collecting fishes; Dr Anna Faltýnková, Czech Academy of Sciences, and co-authors for sharing the phylogenetic position of Neolebouria georgiensis; Dr Andrea Waeschenbach, Natural History Museum, London, for her advice and guidance concerning phylogenetic analyses; and Prof. Andy Austin, University of Adelaide, and the organisers, teaching staff and sponsors of the Fourth National Postgraduate Training Workshop in Systematics.

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SBM is supported by a Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment and a PhD scholarship provided through the Australian Government’s Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) National Taxonomy Research Grant Programme (NTRGP), Grant Number CT215-14.

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Martin, S.B., Cutmore, S.C. & Cribb, T.H. Revision of Neolebouria Gibson, 1976 (Digenea: Opecoelidae), with Trilobovarium n. g., for species infecting tropical and subtropical shallow-water fishes. Syst Parasitol 94, 307–338 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-017-9707-7

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