Xenoligophoroides cobitis (Ergens, 1963) n. g., n. comb. (Monogenea: Ancyrocephalidae), a parasite of Gobius cobitis Pallas (Perciformes: Gobiidae) from the Mediterranean and Black seas

Systematic Parasitology
Evgenija V DmitrievaPaolo Merella

Abstract

Based on an integrative taxonomic approach, combining morphological characters and partial sequences of the nuclear 28S rRNA gene, a new genus and combination for the species Xenoligophoroides cobitis (Ergens, 1963) is proposed, to accommodate ancyrocephalid monogeneans, parasites on the gills of Gobius cobitis Pallas (Gobiidae) from the western Mediterranean Sea and the northern Black Sea. A morphological comparison of newly collected material with the descriptions of Ancyrocephalus cobitis Ergens, 1963 and Haliotrema cupensis Sasal, Pages & Euzet, 1998, recently synonymised and named as Haliotrema cobitis (Ergens, 1963), confirms their similarity and belonging to the same species. However, characters of this species, as the vas deferens not looping the caecal branch, the bilobed base of the male copulatory organ and the marginal hooks with an upright thumb, do not correspond to the diagnosis of Haliotrema Johnston & Tiegs, 1922. Morphologically, this species is close to members of Ligophorus Euzet & Suriano, 1977 and Kriboetrema Sarabeev, Rubtsova, Yang & Balbuena, 2013, but differs from the former in the accessory piece articulated with MCO and two prostatic reservoirs, and from the latter in the uncoiled MCO with bilobed ba...Continue Reading

References

Feb 12, 2002·International Journal for Parasitology·P D Olson, D T J Littlewood
Aug 13, 2003·Bioinformatics·Fredrik Ronquist, John P Huelsenbeck
Apr 10, 2008·Molecular Biology and Evolution·David Posada
Jun 30, 2012·Parasitology International·Isabel Blasco-CostaJuan Antonio Balbuena
Mar 24, 2016·Molecular Biology and Evolution·Sudhir KumarKoichiro Tamura

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