Bibliographic record
Abstract
A new geographic locality record and three new host records for Neobenedenia melleni (MacCallum, 1927) (Monogenea: Capsalidae) are provided.Specimens of N. melleni were collected from the skin of three Florida pompano, Trachinotus carolinus (Linnaeus, 1766) (Carangidae), caught in the northern Gulf of Mexico off Horn Island, Mississippi; from the skin of a bluering angelfish, Pomacanthus annularis (Bloch, 1787) (Pomacanthidae), in the Shark Reef Aquarium at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, Nevada; from the skin of a rock greenling, Hexagrammos lagocephalus (Pallas, 1810) (Hexagrammidae), in the Alaska SeaLife Center, Seward, Alaska; and from the skin of two blue-barred ribbon gobies, Oxymetopon cyanoctenosum Klausewitz and Conde, 1981 (Microdesmidae), in a tropical fish clearinghouse in Hayward, California.This is the first published record of the parasite from a microdesmid or wild carangid.Prior to this report, no specimen of N. melleni had been reported from a wild-caught fish in the Gulf of Mexico.The presence of N. melleni in the Gulf of Mexico is particularly noteworthy because this monogenean is a known pathogen of cultured fishes in netpens and recirculating seawater systems.lithium carbonate and butyl-amine, dehydrated, cleared in clove oil, and mounted in Canada balsam.Worms were identified using the original description of N. melleni (as Epibdella melleni MacCallum, 1927) and the redescription of N. melleni and key to species of Neobenedenia by Whittington and Horton (1996).The primary features that identified our specimens as be- longing within Neobenedenia Yamaguti, 1963 were 1) accessory gland reservoir inside penis sac, 2) vagina absent, and 3) general orientation and path of ducts associated with the male and female reproductive tracts.Specific features were consistent with MacCallum (1927) and Whittington and Horton (1996).A specimen of N. melleni from the Florida pompano, Trachinotus carolinus (Linnaeus, 1766) (Carangidae), was deposited in the United States National Parasite Collection (USNPC) at Beltsville, Maryland, (USNPC No. 92528), and a speci- men each from the bluering angelfish, Pomacanthus annularis (Bloch, 1787) (Pomacanthidae), the rock greenling, Hexagrammos lagocephalus (Pallas, 1810) (Hexagrammidae), and the blue-barred ribbon goby, Oxymetopon cyanoctenosum (Klausewitz and Conde, 1981) (Microdesmidae), was deposited there (USNPC Nos.92529, 92530, 92531, respectively) and in the helminth collections of the H. W. Manter
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.270 | 0.078 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".