''Rasheedia'' is a genus of nematodes in the order
Spirurida
Spirurida falls under the phylum Nematoda class Chromadorea and order Rhabditida. They are characterized by their elongated, cylindrical bodies and unsegmented structure. Like all nematodes, they have neither a circulatory nor a respiratory sys ...
. 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.
[ ]
The genus was named in honour of Suraiya Rasheed, "a well-known
Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...
i fish parasitologist who was the first to describe these interesting nematodes".
Species of ''Rasheedia'' are parasite of fish and include:
* ''
Rasheedia deblocki''
(Le-Van-Hoa, Pham-Ngoc-Khue & Nguyen-Thi-Lien, 1972) Moravec & Justine, 2018
* ''
Rasheedia heptacanthi''
Moravec & Justine, 2018, a parasite of the Cinnabar goatfish ''
Parupeneus heptacanthus'' (
Mullidae
The goatfishes are ray-finned fish of the family Mullidae, the only family in the suborder Mulloidei of the order Syngnathiformes. The family is also sometimes referred to as the red mullets, which also refers more narrowly to the genus ''Mullus ...
) and ''
Dentex fourmanoiri
''Dentex'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sparidae, which includes the seabreams and porgies. The fishes in this genus are found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Indian and Western Pacific Oceans.
Taxo ...
'' (
Sparidae
Sparidae is a family of ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Spariformes, the seabreams and porgies, although they were traditionally classified in the order Perciformes. The over 150 species are found in shallow and deep marine waters in t ...
)
* ''
Rasheedia inglisi''
(Rasheed, 1966) Moravec & Justine, 2018
* ''
Rasheedia novaecaledoniensis''
Moravec & Justine, 2018, a parasite of the Indian goatfish ''
Parupeneus indicus'' (
Mullidae
The goatfishes are ray-finned fish of the family Mullidae, the only family in the suborder Mulloidei of the order Syngnathiformes. The family is also sometimes referred to as the red mullets, which also refers more narrowly to the genus ''Mullus ...
)
* ''
Rasheedia pseudupenei''
(Vassiliadès & Diaw, 1978) Moravec & Justine, 2018
References
Spirurida
Rhabditida genera
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