Golvanacanthus blennii Paggi & Orecchia, 1972 parasite in collection

Type host

Salaria pavo (Risso, 1810)

Type locality

Meditteranean Sea, Gaeta bay (Italy)

Other hosts

Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas, 1770); Aidablennius sphynx (Valenciennes, 1836)

Other localities

Black Sea, Karantinnaya Bay, Sevastopol; Black Sea, Martynova Bay, Sevastopol; Black Sea, Sevastopol

Bibliography

First published in

Paggi L., Orecchia P. 1972. Golvanacanthus blennii nov. gen. et nov. sp. (Palaeacanthocephala: Rhadinorhynchidae Travassos, 1923) parassita di Blennius pavo e proposta di una nuova sottofamiglia Golvanacanthinae nov. subfam. Parassitologia, 14(1): 175–181

Other references

Belofastova I. P. 2004. Black Sea Sciena umbra is the new host for the acanthocephalan Golvanacanthus blennii. Ekologiya morya. 65: 50.

Belofastova I. P., Mordvinova T. N. 2002. Golvanacanthus problematicus Mordvinova et Paruchin, 1978 is a synonym G. blennii Paggi et Oreccia, 1972 (Acanthocephala, Radinorhynchidae). Ekologiya morya, 61: 16–17.

Specimens in collection

	exemplar				found	in	host
803.A.2b.v1	vaucher	adult		wholemount	2004-10-06	Black Sea, Karantinnaya Bay, Sevastopol	Pomatoschistus minutus
804.A.2b.v2-4	vaucher	adult		wholemount	2004-10-01	Black Sea, Martynova Bay, Sevastopol	Salaria pavo
804.A.2b.v5-7	vaucher	adult		wholemount	2004-10-01	Black Sea, Martynova Bay, Sevastopol	Salaria pavo
805.A.2b.v8	vaucher	adult		wholemount	2004-09-20	Black Sea, Sevastopol	Aidablennius sphynx