Wenyonia gracilis sp. n. (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea) from Synodontis zambezensis (Siluriformes: Mochokidae): the first native caryophyllidean tapeworm from southern Africa

Title:

Wenyonia gracilis sp. n. (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea) from Synodontis zambezensis (Siluriformes: Mochokidae): the first native caryophyllidean tapeworm from southern Africa

Creator:

Schaeffner, Bjoern C, Rooyen, Divan van, Gerber, Ruan, Scholz, Tomáš, and Smit, Nico J

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:4c9ed522-0d6f-4a43-a2fd-6258ac078b29
uuid:4c9ed522-0d6f-4a43-a2fd-6258ac078b29
issn:0015-5683
doi:10.14411/fp.2020.035

Subject:

tasemnice, biodiverzita, biogeografie, tapeworms, biodiversity, biogeography, Afrika jižní, Africa, Southern, fish parasites, new species, molecular characterisation, taxonomy, 2, and 59

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model:article and TEXT

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print, počítač, and online zdroj

Description:

Parasitological examination of freshwater fishes of the Phongolo River in north-eastern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa resulted in the discovery and morphological and molecular characterisation of a new species of Wenyonia Woodland, 1923 (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea). The new species from the plain squeaker, Synodontis zambezensis Peters (Siluriformes: Mochokidae), is morphologically most similar to Wenyonia acuminata Woodland, 1923, a species reported from three species of Synodontis in north-eastern, western and central Africa (Sudan, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo). Both these species are markedly different from congeners by having a nematoform body and a digitiform scolex. Wenyonia gracilis sp. n. differs from W. acuminata in its general body size, length and width of main body regions (testicular and uterine regions), a posterior extension of the testes into the uterine region, numerous postovarian vitelline follicles filling the entire medulla, eggs c. 1/3 larger in size, and a scolex with an apical introvert but devoid of longitudinal furrows and a well-defined base. Wenyonia gracilis is the seventh species in the genus and the first autochthonous caryophyllidean ever reported and described from southern Africa (south of the Zambezi River)., Bjoern C. Schaeffner, Divan van Rooyen, Ruan Gerber, Tomáš Scholz, Nico J. Smit., and Obsahuje bibliografii

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

1-11

Source:

Folia parasitologica | 2020 Volume:67 | Number:1

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