Rasheedia
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| Rasheedia | |
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| Rasheedia heptacanthi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Nematoda |
| Class: | Chromadorea |
| Order: | Rhabditida |
| Family: | Physalopteridae |
| Genus: | Rasheedia Moravec & Justine, 2018 |
Rasheedia is a genus of nematodes in the order Spirurida. The nematode genus Bulbocephalus Rasheed, 1966 [1] 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.[2]
The genus was named in honour of Suraiya Rasheed, "a well-known Pakistani fish parasitologist who was the first to describe these interesting nematodes".[2]
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) and Dentex fourmanoiri (Sparidae)
- Rasheedia inglisi (Rasheed, 1966) Moravec & Justine, 2018 [1]
- Rasheedia novaecaledoniensis Moravec & Justine, 2018, a parasite of the Indian goatfish Parupeneus indicus (Mullidae)
- Rasheedia pseudupenei (Vassiliadès & Diaw, 1978) Moravec & Justine, 2018
