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Table 9.

Dimensions of Lepotrema incisum (Hanson, 1955), L. xanthichthydis (Yamaguti, 1970), L. cylindricum (Wang, 1989) and L. navodonis (Shen, 1986) derived from literature sources

Species	Lepotrema incisum	Lepotrema xanthichthydis	Lepotrema cylindricum	Lepotrema navodonis
Host	Melichthys buniva	Xanthichthys ringens	Monacanthus chinensis & Navodon septentrionalis	Thamnaconus modestus
Locality	Hawaii	Hawaii	Fujian, China	Zhejiang, China
Source	Hanson (1955)	Yamaguti (1970)	Wang (1989)	Shen (1986)
Body	1,132–1,432 × 501–785	1,200–1,760 (2,072^a) × 520–700	2,600–2,920 × 1,040–1,120	1,411–1,751 × 612–799
Forebody	553^a	873^a	1,254^a	582^a
Pre-oral lobe	0^a	45^a	68^a	29^a
Oral sucker	169–193 × 200–223	120–270 × 190–310	312–314 × 300–400	170–323 × 272–323
Prepharynx	15–46	50–60	48^a	71–84
Pharynx	131–177 × 154–177	100–130 × 90–170	232 × 286^a	85–153 × 187–272
Oesophagus	23–32	40–90	109^a	34–68
Intestinal bifurcation to ventral sucker	147^a	309^a	505^a	156^a
Pre-vitelline distance	21^a	291^a	599^a	361^a
Vitellarium to ventral sucker	335^a	582^a	655^a	221^a
Ventral sucker	177–193 × 177–200	170–230 × 170–230	273 × 300^a	204–255 × 204–244
Cirrus-sac	108–185 × 77–93	200–360 × 50–80	436 × 166^a	221–323 × 68–85
Ventral sucker to ovary	13^a	145^a	184^a	61^a
Ovary	200 × 280^a	90–210 × 140–260	191 × 170^a	102–238 × 153–204
Ovary to anterior testis	0	0^a	0^a	29^a
Anterior testis	162–216 × 146–269	160–370 × 200–230	348 × 245^a	153–289 × 186–289
Distance between testes	0	0^a	0^a	25^a
Posterior testis	169–239 × 162–354	160–370 × 200–230	327 × 225^a	170–255 × 187–204
Post-testicular distance	135^a	218^a	280^a	205^a
Post-caecal distance	100^a	73^a	55^a	66^a
Eggs	38–46 × 23–30	46–56 × 25–33	56–60 × 35–42	48–54 × 24–27
Width (%)^b	44.3–54.8	39.8–43.3	38.4–40.0	43.4–45.6
Forebody (%)^b	38.8^a	42.1^a	47.4^a	37.8^a
Sucker length ratio	1:1.00–1.05	1:0.85–1.42	1:0.87^a	1:0.79–1.20
Sucker width ratio	1:08.9–0.90	1:0.74–0.89	1:0.76^a	1:0.75–0.79
Oral sucker: pharynx width	1:1.26–1.30	1:1.82–2.11	1:1.38^a	1:1.19–1.45
Ventral sucker to ovary (%)^b	0.9^a	7.00^a	6.96^a	3.96^a
Post-testicular distance (%)^b	9.5^a	10.5^a	10.6^a	13.3^a
Prepharynx (%)^b	1.3–3.2	3.41–4.17	1.81^a	4.80–5.03
Oesophagus (%)^b	2.0–2.2	3.33–5.11	4.12^a	2.41–3.88
Intestinal bifurcation to ventral sucker distance (%)^b	10.3^a	14.9^a	19.1^a	10.1^a
Vitellarium to ventral sucker distance	23.5^a	28.1^a	24.8^a	14.3^a
Ovary to anterior testis (%)^b	0	0^a	0^a	1.88^a
Distance between testes (%)^b	0	0^a	0^a	1.62^a
Cirrus-sac length (%)^b	9.5–12.9	16.7–20.4	16.5^a	15.7–18.4
Pre-vitelline distance (%)^b	15.3^a	14.0^a	22.6^a	22.4^a
Anterior testis length (%)^b	14.3–15.1	13.3–21.0	13.2^a	10.8–16.5
Posterior testis length (%)^b	14.9–16.7	13.3–21.0	12.4^a	12.0–14.6

^aFrom the illustration; ^b%, percent of body length