Pseudorhabdosynochus sulamericanus (Monogenea, Diplectanidae), a parasite of deep-sea groupers (Serranidae) occurs transatlantically on three congeneric hosts (Hyporthodus spp.), one from the Mediterranean Sea and two from the western Atlantic Amira Chaabane1, Jean-Lou Justine2, Delphine Gey3, Micah D. Bakenhaster4 and Lassad Neifar1 1 Faculté des Sciences de Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia 2 ISYEB, Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France 3 UMS 2700 Service de Systématique Moléculaire, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France 4 Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, St. Petersburg, FL, USA ABSTRACT Little is known of the diversity of the monogenean parasites infesting deep-sea groupers, and there is even less information available about their geographic distributions within the ranges of their hosts. To improve our understanding of these host- parasite relationships we conducted parasitological evaluations of the deep-water Haifa grouper Hyporthodus haifensis from the southern Mediterranean off Tunisia and Libya. We collected more than one species of diplectanid monogeneans from this host, but among these only one dominant species was abundant. This proved Submitted 12 April 2016 to be morphologically very similar to Pseudorhabdosynochus sulamericanus Santos, Accepted 17 June 2016 Published 16 August 2016 Buchmann & Gibson, 2000, a species originally described from the congeneric host H. niveatus off Brazil and also recorded from H. niveatus and H. nigritus off Corresponding author Amira Chaabane, Florida. Here, we conducted a morphological comparison between newly collected
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