Five New Species of the Tapeworm Genus Anthocephalum (Rhinebothriidea: Anthocephaliidae) Parasitizing A Single Species of Indo-Pacific Stingray and A Revised Diagnosis of the Genus

The Journal of Parasitology
Kaylee S Herzog, K Jensen

Abstract

Five new species of the elasmobranch tapeworm genus Anthocephalum Linton, 1890 (Rhinebothriidea: Anthocephaliidae Ruhnke, Caira and Cox, 2015 ) are described from the mangrove whipray, Urogymnus granulatus (Macleay) from the Solomon Islands and northern Australia. Anthocephalum blairi n. sp., Anthocephalum gravisi n. sp., Anthocephalum haroldsoni n. sp., Anthocephalum mounseyi n. sp., and Anthocephalum ruhnkei n. sp. differ from one another and their congeners based on quantitative and qualitative features of the scolex and proglottid anatomy. Species boundaries recognized by these distinguishing morphological features are supported by a maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis based on combined 18S rDNA and 28S rDNA (D1-D3) sequence data showing the new species as independent lineages among 13 of the 18 species of Anthocephalum described to date. Several morphological features (the possession of columns of vitelline follicles that are interrupted by the ovary, a uterus that does not extend to the anterior margin of the proglottid but stops short in the anterior region of the field of testes, proximal surfaces of the marginal loculi covered with acicular filitriches only throughout, or with gladiate spinitriches and acicular fi...Continue Reading

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