Rasheedia Explained

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

Notes and References

1. Rasheed. Suraiya. On some interesting nematode parasites of fish from Pakistan. Parasitology. 56. 1. 1966. 151–160. 0031-1820. 10.1017/S0031182000071171. 5912225 . 22123094 .
2. Moravec. František. Justine. Jean-Lou. Rasheedia n. nom. (Nematoda, Physalopteridae) for Bulbocephalus Rasheed, 1966 (a homonym of Bulbocephalus Watson, 1916), with description of Rasheedia heptacanthi n. sp. and R. novaecaledoniensis n. sp. from perciform fishes off New Caledonia. Parasite. 25. 2018. 39. 1776-1042. 10.1051/parasite/2018033. 30052500. 6063723.