Abstract
Mamaevodiclidophora nom.nov. is proposed as a generic replacement name for Neodiclidophora Mamaëv, 1987, a junior homonym of Neodiclidophora Gupta and Krisha, 1979. The detailed morphology of the male genital terminalia and the clamp in Mamaevodiclidophora pugetensis (Robinson, 1961) comb.nov. is redescribed and illustrated from specimens collected from the gills of Atherestes stomias (Pleuronectidae) in the northeastern Pacific. The generic diagnosis is emended to include, in the male genital terminalia, a prostatic vesicle and, in the clamp, a partially developed lamellate extension, b, with a complete proximal border between sclerites a2 and c2. Neodiclidophora Gupta and Krishna, 1979 is briefly discussed. The description of the type species, Neodiclidophora simhai Gupta and Krisha, 1979, from the gills of Takifugu (= Tetradon) oblongus (Tetraodontidae) in India, is compared with another species reported from the same host and locality, Diclidophora indica Tripathi, 1959, species incertae sedis. Neodiclidophora Khoche, 1969 from the gills of Saurida tumbil (Synodontidae) in India, is probably Osphyobothrus bychowskyi Khoche and Chauhan, 1969 and is dismissed as a nomen nudum.
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