Pseudorhabdosynochus woodi

Pseudorhabdosynochus woodi is a diplectanid monogenean parasitic on the gills of the red hind, Epinephelus guttatus.

[1] Kritsky, Bakenhaster & Adams (2015) wrote that Pseudorhabdosynochus woodi differs from Pseudorhabdosynochus mizellei by possessing an ovate chamber in the vaginal sclerite (versus two chambers of P. mizellei small and lacking a definitive shape).

It most closely resembles P. justinella and P. bunkleywilliamsae by possessing a short robust ventral bar and a vaginal sclerite having a sigmoid distal tube.

The chamber of the vaginal sclerite is small and ovate in P. woodi (larger and subspherical in P. justinella and P.

[1] The type-host and only recorded host of P. bunkleywilliamsae is the red hind, Epinephelus guttatus (Serranidae: Epinephelinae).

The red hind, Epinephelus guttatus is the type-host of Pseudorhabdosynochus woodi