New paper on a new species of acanthocephalan

I’ve got another recent paper out, another collaboration with the eminent Emeritus Professor Lesley Warner (she publishes under Lesley Smales).

Reference:

Huston, D.C. and Smales, L.R. 2021. Gorgorhynchoides pseudocarangis n. sp. (Acanthocephala: Isthmosacanthidae) from Pseudocaranx dentex (Carangidae) in southeast Queensland, Australia, with comments on the Isthmosacanthidae. Systematic Parasitology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-021-09985-1

Sometimes you can’t fit all your findings into a single paper – there are lots of reasons for this but in my experience, it is usually not an issue of space but more an issue of focus. Anyway, in our 2020 paper (‘Molecular characterisation of acanthocephalans from Australian marine teleosts…’) on the molecular phylogeny of acanthocephalans we determined some of the Gorgorhynchoides specimens we collected likely represented an undescribed species. We didn’t think that this description would really fit into our previous paper, so we decided to publish it separately. This was good as we also had some further comments on our previously proposed transfer (in the 2020 paper) of Gorgorhynchoides and Serrasentis to the family Isthmosacanthidae.