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''Lethacotyle fijiensis'' Manter & Prince, 1953 is a species of monogenean of the family Protomicrocotylidae. The species is ectoparasitic on the gills of an unknown carangid fish identified in the original publication〔 as "yellow jack". It is the type-species of the genus ''Lethacotyle'' Manter & Prince, 1953. It has been described from two specimens only by Manter & Prince in 1953;〔Manter, H. W. & Prince, D. F. 1953: Some Monogenetic Trematodes of marine fishes from Fiji. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 20, 105-112.〕 of these, a single specimen, the holotype has been kept in the US National Parasite Collections and thus was the single specimen of the species, and therefore of the genus, which was available for study. Later, another species of the same genus was described. ''L. fijiensis'' has been found only off Fiji by Manter & Prince in 1953〔 (the material of the original description, hence the Latin species name, ''fijiensis'', meaning "from Fiji") and allegedly off Andaman Islands by Ramalingam in 1968,〔Ramalingam, K. 1966: A rare record of ''Lethacotyle'' (Monogenea), its post-oncomiracidial larva with observation on distribution. ''Current Science'', 35, 101-102.〕〔Ramalingam, K. 1968: A redescription of ''Lethacotyle'' (Monogenea) and its post-oncomiracidial larva. Journal of the Madras University B, 35-36, 107-114.〕 although other authors〔 have expressed doubt that the later author actually found the same species. The two specimens of the original material of ''L. fijiensis'' are 3.156 and 3.759 millimetres in length.〔 The body is elongate, flat, there are numerous testes and a single ovary. The copulatory organs include a sclerotised vagina and male copulatory organ, comprising a ring of 24-25 spines which are 24 µm in length.〔 The length of the spines of the male copulatory apparatus is the main diagnosis character of the species,〔 which allows its separation from ''L. vera'', the only other species of the genus. The posterior part of the body of ''L. fijiensis'' is asymmetrical. It bears a terminal lappet which is striated, and there are no clamps - this is a characteristic of the genus ''Lethacotyle''.〔〔 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lethacotyle fijiensis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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