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2. Grillotia borealis sp. n. (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha) from five species of Bathyraja (Rajiformes: Arhynchobatidae) in the North Pacific Ocean with comments on parasite enteric distribution
- Creator:
- Keeney, Devon B. and Campbell, Ronald A.
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- Cestoda, Trypanorhyncha, parasites, Grillotia, Bathyraja, zoogeography, skates, and mucosal morphology
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- English
- Description:
- A new trypanorhynch cestode, Grillotia borealis sp. n., is described from the spiral intestines of softnose skates of the genus Bathyraja collected from subarctic waters of the North Pacific Ocean: B. parmifera (Bean) (type host), B. aleutica (Gilbert) and B. interrupta (Gill et Townsend) from the Bering Sea and B. minispinosa Ishiyama et Ishihara and B. smirnovi (Soldatov et Pavlenko) from the Sea of Okhotsk off Japan. The new species is distinguished from other species of Grillotia by possession of the following combination of characters: four hooks per principal row, hooks 4(4') distinctly separated from hooks 3(3') of principal row, principal rows separated by 13-15 intercalary hooks in 2-3 rows, hooks 2(2') and 3(3') change in form along their respective files, hooks 1(1') do not change in form along the file, a broad band of microhooks on the external tentacular face, intermediary hooks are lacking, absence of a special basal armature, origin of the retractor muscle near middle of the bulb, average scolex ratio of 1 : 3 : 2 : 0.1, and a hermaphroditic sac. Grillotia borealis consistently favoured the most anterior regions of the spiral intestine. Seventy-one per cent of 21 attached worms occupied the most anterior chamber of the spiral valve and 52 per cent were embedded in the anterior surface of the spiral valve whorls. Factors which may limit the distribution of G. borealis within the spiral intestine of its host are discussed. Statistically significant differences occur in the mucosal morphology of B. aleutica and B. parmifera for villus length, diameter, spatial arrangement and number per unit area along the antero-posterior axis of the spiral intestine.
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3. Histopathological reactions of the blue shark, Prionace glauca, to postlarvae of Hepatoxylon trichiuri (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha: Hepatoxylidae) in relationship to scolex morphology
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- Campbell, Ronald A. and Callahan, Colleen
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- Hepatoxylon trichiuri, Trypanorhyncha, Prionace glauca, liver, epigonal organ, and histopathology
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- English
- Description:
- Postlarvae of the cestode Hepatoxylon trichiuri (Holten, 1802) were found attached to the surface of viscera of Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758) taken from Atlantic coastal waters off the south coast of Massachusetts, USA. Gross anatomy of the attachment site shows a quadripartite rim surrounding a deep pit with holes corresponding to the penetration site of each tentacle. Hyperplasia of the liver capsule into outgrowths at the attachment site conform to the attachment of the bothridia. The cu-boidal epithelium of the liver capsule became columnar forming papillary outgrowths, with a dense fibrotic reaction beneath the attachment site and infiltration by leukocytes and pigment containing granulocytic cells. Blood sinusoids beneath the attachment site are greatly enlarged. Postlarvae attached to the surface of the epigonal organs of three blue sharks were not accompanied by reactions. SEM examination of the scolex of H. trichiuri postlarvae revealed fused pairs of bothridia within infolded muscular lateral rims, porose tegument devoid of microtriches and a bilateral plane of symmetry in the tentacular armature.
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4. Host-finding behaviour of Cotylurus flabelliformis (Trematoda: Strigeidae) cercariae for snail hosts
- Creator:
- Campbell, Ronald A.
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- Cotylurus, Strigeidae, Lymnaea stagnalis, cercariae, and chemoattraction
- Language:
- English
- Description:
- Cercariae of Cotylurus flabelliformis (Faust, 1917) were individually tested in 6 experiments for evidence of chemoattraction to snail hosts, host-speeificity, and rate of dispersal. Five species of snails were tested: Lymnaea stagnalis appressa Say, 1821, Stagnatola eludes (Say, 1821), Physella gyrina (Say, 1821), Planorbella trivnlvis (Say, 1817), and Oxyloma retusum (Lea, 1834). The data substantiate that cercariae of C. flabelliformis have a chemo-positive attraction to undetermined diffusable substances from snails, show host-specificity, and do not attack the snail that produced them. Cercarial response time was significantly influenced by cercarial age (post-emergence), and duration of presence of snails. Newly emerged cercariae were most consistently chemo-positive to L. stagnalis and quickly located all snail species except the unnatural host O. retusum. Tests of 121 cercariae proved statistically significant in showing preferences for snail hosts. Cercarial dispersal experiments showed that C. flabelliformis cercariae can disperse rapidly but few located and penetrated lab-reared S. eludes at distances up to 1.2 m. The results are consistent with other studies which indicate that chemical gradients are used by cercariae to locate slow moving hosts and that cercariae must come into close proximity of snails before attraction occurs. The significance of these observations to the distribution of C. flabelliformis in the molluscan population is discussed.
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5. Review of the Rhopalothylacidae Guiart, 1935 (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha), with a description of the adult of Pintneriella musculicola Yamaguti, 1934 and a redescription of P. gymnorhynchoides (Guiart, 1935) comb. n.
- Creator:
- Beveridge, Ian and Campbell, Ronald A.
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- bez média and svazek
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- model:article and TEXT
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- Cestoda, Trypanorhyncha, Rhopalothylacidae, Clujia, Pintneriella, Rhopalothylax, taxonomy, morphology, and phylogeny
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- English
- Description:
- The family Rhopalothylacidae (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha) is reviewed. The type species, Rhopalothylax gymnorhynchoides Guiart, 1935, is redescribed from the type specimens and belongs within the genus Pintneriella Yamaguti, 1934, previously described only from the plerocercus. Rhopalothylax therefore becomes a junior synonym of Pintneriella. The adult of Pintneriella musculicola Yamaguti, 1934 is described for the first time, from the shark Carcharias taurus Rafinesque from Australia. Pintneriella is characterised by two bothridia, a typical heteroacanthous armature, a unique, bipartite external seminal vesicle and a uterus deviated porally, terminating at a uterine pore. It belongs within the Heteracanthoidea but is distinguishable both from the Eutetrarhynchidae and the Gilquiniidae, the two families which it most closely resembles. Cladistic analyses align Pintneriella within the clade containing the families Gilquiniidae, Gymnorhynchidae and Molicolidae rather than with the Eutetrarhynchidae. The family Rhopalothylacidae is therefore retained provisionally to accommodate Pintneriella within the Heteracanthoidea. The second genus of the Rhopalothylacidae, Clujia Guiart, 1935, is unrecognisable from its description and cannot be redescribed from its holotype. It is therefore considered a genus inquirendum.
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6. Three new genera and seven new species of trypanorhynch cestodes (family Eutetrarhynchidae) from manta rays, Mobula spp. (Mobulidae) from the Gulf of California, Mexico
- Creator:
- Campbell, Ronald A. and Beveridge, Ian
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- bez média and svazek
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- model:article and TEXT
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- Cestoda, Trypanorhyncha, Eutetrarhynchidae, Fellicocestus, Mobulocestus, Hemionchos, taxonomy, new genera, and Mobulidae
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- English
- Description:
- Three new genera of eutetrarhynchid trypanorhynch cestodes are described from Mobula spp. (Mobulidae) from the Gulf of California, Mexico. Fellicocestus mobulae gen. et sp. n. from the gall bladder of Mobula japonica (Müller et Henle) is distinguished by elongate bothria, a pars bothrialis equal in length to the pars vaginalis, masses of gland cells in the pars vaginalis and an heteromorphous armature in which hook rows arise from a central file of hooks on the bothrial surface of the tentacle and terminate in a central file on the antibothrial surface. Species of Mobulocestus gen. n. occur in the nephridial system and cloaca of rays and are characterized by two bothria, an heteroacanthous armature with hook rows beginning on the bothrial surface and terminating on the antibothrial surface, and by hooks at the beginnings of rows with an apical cavity. M. nephritidis sp. n. and M. lepidoscolex sp. n., both from the nephridial system of Mobula thurstoni (Lloyd) are differentiated by testis number and by the presence of scale-like microtriches on the tegument of the scolex of M. lepidoscolex. M. mollis sp. n., from the cloaca of Mobula thurstoni is distinguished by testis number (97-111 in M. lepidoscolex, 20-22 in M. nephriticus and 48-70 in M. mollis). Hemionchos gen. n. from the spiral valve of Mobula spp. has two bothria, an heteroacanthous armature, hook rows arising on the bothrial surface and terminating on the antibothrial surface and hooks at the beginning of rows with an apical cavity. It differs from Mobulocestus in having a distinctive basal armature and both hook files 1 and 1' on the bothrial surface, but has an additional, small, satellite hook adjacent to each hook 1'. H. striatus sp. n. from the spiral valve of Mobula thurstoni and M. japonica is differentiated by having a basal armature of closely packed arrays of small, uncinate hooks. H. mobulae sp. n. from the spiral valve of Mobula japonica and M. munkiana Notarbartolo di Sciari, differs in testis number and in having large, flattened hooks in the basal armature. H. maior sp. n., from the spiral valve of M. japonica, is larger, differing in both the number of testes and in the basal armature.
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