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Rasheedia

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Rasheedia
Rasheedia heptacanthi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Rhabditida
Family: Physalopteridae
Genus: Rasheedia
Moravec & Justine, 2018

Rasheedia is a genus of nematodes in the order Spirurida. The nematode genus Bulbocephalus Rasheed, 1966 [1] was found to be a homonym of Bulbocephalus Watson, 1916 (Apicomplexa, Stylocephalidae) and, therefore, a new name, Rasheedia n. nom., was proposed in 2018 to substitute it.[2]

The genus was named in honour of Suraiya Rasheed, "a well-known Pakistani fish parasitologist who was the first to describe these interesting nematodes".[2]

Species of Rasheedia are parasite of fish and include:

References

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  1. ^ a b Rasheed, Suraiya (1966). "On some interesting nematode parasites of fish from Pakistan". Parasitology. 56 (1): 151–160. doi:10.1017/S0031182000071171. ISSN 0031-1820. PMID 5912225. S2CID 22123094.
  2. ^ a b Moravec, František; Justine, Jean-Lou (2018). "Rasheedia n. nom. (Nematoda, Physalopteridae) for Bulbocephalus Rasheed, 1966 (a homonym of Bulbocephalus Watson, 1916), with description of Rasheedia heptacanthi n. sp. and R. novaecaledoniensis n. sp. from perciform fishes off New Caledonia". Parasite. 25: 39. doi:10.1051/parasite/2018033. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 6063723. PMID 30052500. Open access icon