@article{PAR00002153,
  title = {{M}onogeneans of the speckled blue grouper, {E}pinephelus cyanopodus ({P}erciformes, {S}erranidae), from off {N}ew {C}aledonia, with a description of four new species of {P}seudorhabdosynochus and one new species of {L}aticola ({M}onogenea : {D}iplectanidae), and evidence of monogenean faunal changes according to the size of fish},
  author = {{S}igura, {A}. and {J}ustine, {J}ean-{L}ou},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{N}ine species were identified among 1500 monogeneans collected on the gills of 17 speckled blue groupers, {E}pinephelus cyanopodus, caught off {N}ew {C}aledonia, {S}outh {P}acific. {A} new method for describing squamodiscs in tables is proposed. {D}iplectanids included one new species of {L}aticola, which was the most abundant species, and six species of {P}seudorhabdosynochus, including four new species, which were differentiated mainly on the basis of morphology of the sclerotised vagina. {L}aticola cyanus n. sp. is characterised by its genital organs. {P}seudorhabdosynochus cyanopodus n. sp. and {P}. podocyanus n. sp. both have a vagina with a large primary chamber. {P}seudorhabdosynochus chauveti n. sp. has a vagina with a long, coiled primary canal. {P}seudorhabdosynochus exoticus n. sp. has an aberrant discoid vagina and characters (tip of quadriloculate organ, lateral bar with hook), which differentiate it from all other species. {T}he five previously cited species are strictly specific to {E}. cyanopodus and were abundant in large (> 585 mm) fish. {I}n addition, {H}aliotrema sp. ({A}ncyrocephalidae) and {A}llobenedenia sp. ({C}apsalidae), both undescribed, were also found on large fish. {P}seudorhabdosynochus duitoe {J}ustine, 2007 and {P}. huitoe {J}ustine, 2007, were collected in very small numbers, mainly in young (345-500 mm) fish; the type-host of these two species is the highfin grouper, {E}. maculatus, and their occurrence on {E}. cyanopodus was considered accidental and due to habitat overlap between the young speckled blue groupers and adult highfin groupers. {I}t is hypothesized that the speckled blue groupers are infested by their own, strictly specific monogeneans, only when they encounter older members of their species during spawning aggregations. {S}pawning aggregations thus play a key role in infestation of coral reef fish by their monoxenic parasites such as monogeneans. {L}ists are given for other parasites of the speckled blue grouper, including digeneans, cestodes, nematodes, isopods and copepods, with new records from {N}ew {C}aledonia: 41 species of parasites are recorded.},
  keywords = {},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{Z}ootaxa},
  volume = {(1695)},
  numero = {},
  pages = {1--44},
  ISSN = {1175-5326},
  year = {2008},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/{PAR}00002153},
}