Pseudorhabdosynochus bunkleywilliamsae

Pseudorhabdosynochus bunkleywilliamsae is a diplectanid monogenean parasitic on the gills of the Nassau grouper, Epinephelus striatus.

She and Dr. Ernest Williams collected and preserved the specimens of P. bunkleywilliamsae on which the description was based.

[1] Kritsky, Bakenhaster & Adams (2015) wrote that Pseudorhabdosynochus bunkleywilliamsae most closely resembles Pseudorhabdosynochus justinella, a parasite of Epinephelus morio, in the general morphology of the vaginal sclerite and in the shape and number of concentric rows of rodlets in the squamodisc.

[1] The type-host and only recorded host of P. bunkleywilliamsae is the Nassau grouper, Epinephelus striatus (Serranidae: Epinephelinae).

The type-locality and only recorded locality is La Parguera, Puerto Rico.

The Nassau grouper, Epinephelus striatus is the type-host of Pseudorhabdosynochus bunkleywilliamsae