''Rasheedia'' is a genus of nematodes in the order
Spirurida
Spirurida is an order of spirurian nematodes. Like all nematodes, they have neither a circulatory nor a respiratory system.
Some Spirurida, like the genus ''Gongylonema'', can cause disease in humans. One such disease is a skin infection with ...
. The nematode genus ''Bulbocephalus''
Rasheed, 1966 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.
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The genus was named in honour of Suraiya Rasheed, "a well-known
Pakistan
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i fish parasitologist who was the first to describe these interesting nematodes".
Species of ''Rasheedia'' are parasite of fish and include:
* ''
Rasheedia heptacanthi''
Moravec & Justine, 2018, a parasite of the Cinnabar goatfish ''
Parupeneus heptacanthus'' (
Mullidae
The goatfishes are perciform fish of the family Mullidae. The family is also sometimes referred to as the red mullets, which also refers more narrowly to the genus ''Mullus''.
The family name and the English common name mullet derived from Lati ...
) and ''
Dentex fourmanoiri
''Dentex'' is a genus of fish in the family Sparidae.
Species
There are currently 14 recognized species in this genus:
* ''Dentex abei'' Iwatsuki, Akazaki & Taniguchi, 2007 (Yellowfin seabream)
* ''Dentex angolensis'' Poll & Maul, 1953 (Angol ...
'' (
Sparidae
The Sparidae are a family of fish in the order Perciformes, commonly called sea breams and porgies. The sheepshead, scup, and red seabream are species in this family. Most sparids are deep-bodied compressed fish with a small mouth separated by a ...
)
* ''
Rasheedia novaecaledoniensis''
Moravec & Justine, 2018, a parasite of the Indian goatfish ''
Parupeneus indicus'' (
Mullidae
The goatfishes are perciform fish of the family Mullidae. The family is also sometimes referred to as the red mullets, which also refers more narrowly to the genus ''Mullus''.
The family name and the English common name mullet derived from Lati ...
)
* ''Rasheedia deblocki''
(Le-Van-Hoa, Pham-Ngoc-Khue & Nguyen-Thi-Lien, 1972) Moravec & Justine, 2018
* ''Rasheedia inglisi''
(Rasheed, 1966) Moravec & Justine, 2018
* ''Rasheedia pseudupenei''
(Vassiliadès & Diaw, 1978) Moravec & Justine, 2018
References
Spirurida
Secernentea genera
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