Haliotrematoides calcaris ( Bychowsky & Nagibina, 1971 ) Kritsky, Delane C., Tingbao, Yang & Yuan, Sun, 2009

Kritsky, Delane C., Tingbao, Yang & Yuan, Sun, 2009, Dactylogyrids (Monogenoidea, Polyonchoinea) parasitizing the gills of snappers (Perciformes, Lutjanidae): Proposal of Haliotrematoides n. gen. and descriptions of new and previously described species from marine fishes of the Red Sea, the eastern and Indo-west Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, Zootaxa 1970 (1970), pp. 1-51 : 30

Haliotrematoides calcaris ( Bychowsky & Nagibina, 1971) n. comb.

Syn. Haliotrema calcaris Bychowsky & Nagibina, 1971

Type host and locality: Lutjanus sp. (Lutjanidae) : off Hainan Island, South China Sea.

Site of infection: Gills.

Previous record (as Haliotrema calcaris ): Lutjanus sp. : off Hainan Island, South China Sea ( Bychowsky & Nagibina 1971).

Remarks: Bychowsky & Nagibina (1971) placed this species in Haliotrema when they described it from Lutjanus sp. from the South China Sea. Haliotrematoides calcaris was not collected and museum specimens of the species were not examined during the present study. However, the species is transferred to Haliotrematoides as H. calcaris ( Bychowsky & Nagibina, 1971) n. comb. based on the morphology of haptoral and copulatory sclerites as depicted by Bychowsky & Nagibina (1971). The species is easily distinguished from congeners by the elongate spur on the dorsal anchor shaft and the short spur on the ventral anchor shaft. This pattern does not occur in any of the other known species of Haliotrematoides .