RESEARCH ARTICLE Diplectanids from Mycteroperca spp. (Epinephelidae) in the Mediterranean Sea: Redescriptions of six species from material collected off Tunisia and Libya, proposal for the 'Pseudorhabdosynochus riouxi group', and a taxonomic key a1111111111 a1111111111 Amira Chaabane1*, Lassad Neifar1, Jean-Lou Justine2 a1111111111  a1111111111 1 Laboratoire de Biodiversite et Ecosystèmes Aquatiques, Faculte des Sciences de Sfax, Universite de Sfax, Sfax, Tunisie, 2 ISYEB, Institut SysteÂmatique, E volution, BiodiversiteÂ, UMR7205 (CNRS, EPHE, MNHN, a1111111111 UPMC), MuseÂum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne UniversiteÂs, Paris, France *
[email protected] OPEN ACCESS Abstract Citation: Chaabane A, Neifar L, Justine J-L (2017) Diplectanids from Mycteroperca spp. Diplectanid monogeneans are gill parasites that can infect fish in huge numbers and thus (Epinephelidae) in the Mediterranean Sea: become harmful, especially in maricultured fish. It is therefore useful to have taxonomic Redescriptions of six species from material tools, such as keys, to identify species. The following diplectanid species from groupers of collected off Tunisia and Libya, proposal for the 'Pseudorhabdosynochus riouxi group', and a the Mediterranean Sea were studied: five species of Pseudorhabdosynochus Yamaguti, taxonomic key. PLoS ONE 12(2): e0171392. 1958, including P. riouxi (Oliver, 1986) Kritsky & Beverley-Burton, 1986 from the dusky grou- doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0171392 per Mycteroperca marginata, P. enitsuji Neifar & Euzet, 2007, P. bouaini Neifar & Euzet, Editor: Gordon Langsley, Institut national de la 2007, P. dolicocolpos Neifar & Euzet, 2007 and P. sinediscus Neifar & Euzet, 2007 from the sante et de la recherche meÂdicale - Institut Cochin, goldblotch grouper M. costae, and Echinoplectanum echinophallus (Euzet & Oliver, 1965) FRANCE Justine & Euzet, 2006 from the dusky grouper.