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A revision of the species of Saturnius Manter, 1969 (Digenea: Hemiuridae), parasites of mullets (Teleostei: Mugilidae)

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The genus Saturnius Manter, 1969 is defined, its species re-examined and a key to the species presented. S. overstreeti n. sp. is described from Mugil soiuy Basilewsky and M. cephalus L. from the Russian coast of the Sea of Japan and distinguished from the morphologically related S. papernai Overstreet, 1977 and S. maurepasi Overstreet, 1977. S. segmentatus Manter, 1969 is redescribed on the basis of the type- and newly collected material from M. cephalus on the Russian coast of the Sea of Japan. The morphometric variation of S. papernai is studied based on newly collected material from Liza aurata (Risso) in the Ebro Delta and off Santa Pola, Spain. The comparisons reveal lower ranges of most metrical features than previously known. A principal component analysis, carried out after adding the new data to those of Blasco-Costa et al. (2006), confirms the species identification. Other valid species recognised are S. mugilis (Yamaguti, 1970), S. maurepasi, S. belizensis Fischthal, 1977, S. dimitrovi Blasco-Costa et al., 2006 and S. minutus Blasco-Costa et al., 2006. Forms considered species inquirendae are S. valamugilis Rekharani & Madhavi, 1984, Bunocotyle constrictus Domnich & Sarabeev, 1999 [=S. papernai of Domnich & Sarabeev (2000a, b, c, d)], B. mugilis Yamaguti, 1970 of Solonchenko (1976) and S. mugilis of Dmitrieva & Gaevskaya (2001). Host and locality information is given in detail for all species. Lisa ramado (Risso) and Chelon labrosus (Cuvier) are new host records for S. papernai (sensu stricto) and S. dimitrovi. L. aurata is a new host record for S. dimitrovi and S. minutus, and L. saliens (Risso) is a new host record for S. minutus.

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Acknowledgements

We are indebted to Patricia Pilitt and F. Agustín Jiménez for the loan of specimens from the United States National Parasite Collection and the Collection of the Harold W. Manter Parasitological Laboratory, respectively. We thank Rod Bray, who kindly read a draft of the manuscript and two anonymous referees for their useful comments. I. Blasco-Costa benefits from a doctoral fellowship from the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain (AP-2004-2999) and F.E. Montero benefits from a Juan de la Cierva contract from the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain. The study was funded by INTAS (03-51-5998) and the Generalitat Valenciana (ACOM P06/101) grants and partly supported by a Synthesys grant (GB-TAF-329) to AK.

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  1. Marine Zoology Unit, Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, PO Box 22 085, 46071, Valencia, Spain

    Isabel Blasco-Costa, Juan Antonio Balbuena, Juan Antonio Raga & Aneta Kostadinova

  2. Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology, Autonomous, University of Barcelona, Campus Universitari, 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

    Francisco E. Montero

  3. Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK

    David I. Gibson

  4. Section of Hydrobiont Diseases, Pacific Research Fisheries Centre, 4 Shevchenko Street, 690950, Vladivostok, Russia

    Ludmila S. Shvetsova

  5. Central Laboratory of General Ecology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2 Gagarin Street, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Aneta Kostadinova

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Blasco-Costa, I., Montero, F.E., Gibson, D.I. et al. A revision of the species of Saturnius Manter, 1969 (Digenea: Hemiuridae), parasites of mullets (Teleostei: Mugilidae). Syst Parasitol 71, 53–74 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-008-9141-y

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