Morphology and Phylogeny of Thelohanellus marginatus n. sp. (Myxozoa: Myxosporea), a Parasite Infecting the Gills of the Fish Hypophthalmus marginatus (Teleostei: Pimelodidae) in the Amazon River

Thelohanellus marginatus n. sp., a new myxosporean parasite infecting the primary gill filaments of the teleost fish Hypophthalmus marginatus (Pimelodidae) in the Amazon River, is described on the basis of microscopic and molecular procedures. The parasite forms whitish and ellipsoidal cysts up to 250 μm in diam. Myxospores ellipsoidal with a slightly more pointed anterior end, measuring 17.1 ± 0.6 μm in length, 6.9 ± 0.4 μm in width, and 5.1 ± 0.5 μm in thickness. A single pyriform polar capsule, 9.0 ± 0.3 μm long and 6.1 ± 0.4 μm wide, positioned slightly right to the medial plane in valvular view, contains a polar filament arranged in 4–5 coils. Molecular analysis of the SSU rRNA gene by Maximum Parsimony, Neighbor‐Joining, and Maximum Likelihood revealed the parasite clustering among other myxobolids, namely Henneguya and Myxobolus. Host affinity is supported as an important evolutionary signal for the phylogeny of myxobolids. The parasite here described represents the first record of the genus Thelohanellus Kudo, 1933 from the South American fauna.     

中国蕨类植物孢子形态的研究 Ⅵ . 凤尾蕨科

利用扫描电镜对国产凤尾蕨科( Pteridaceae ) 2 属30 种4 变种植物孢子进行了观察。其中凤尾蕨属( Pteris) 29 种4 变种, 孢子三裂缝, 辐射对称; 极面观为钝三角形, 赤道面观为半圆形或超半圆形; 孢子极轴长26～54μm, 赤道轴长34～97μm; 外壁厚, 形成孢子表面纹饰的轮廓; 周壁薄, 紧贴于外壁上; 多数种类孢子外壁具沿赤道加厚的赤道环, 孢子表面呈瘤块状、疣块状, 或隆起的脊连成网状或拟网状等纹饰, 有的种类具近极脊和远极脊。凤尾蕨属植物孢子的形态稳定, 种间差异明显, 但孢子形态特征与孢子体的形态特征是不相关的。栗蕨属( Histiopteris) 植物孢子为单裂缝, 两侧对称, 极面观椭圆形, 赤道面观豆形; 孢子极轴长22～23μm, 赤道轴长29～36μm; 周壁很薄, 由外壁形成孢子纹饰的轮廓; 表面呈粗的块状纹饰。从孢子形态上看, 栗蕨属与凤尾蕨属有很大差异, 将其放在一个科中不合适。     

Spore Morphology of Pteridophytes from China Ⅵ .Pteridaceae

The spore morphology of 30 species 4 variety of 2 genera of Pteridaceae from China was investigated under scanning electron microscope (SEM) . Among them, 29 species 4 variety belong to the genus Pteris . The spores of Pteris are trilete , radiosymmetrical , subtriangular in polar view and hemispherical or subhemispherical in equatorial view . The polar axes are 26 - 54μm long , and equatorial axes are 34 - 97μm long . The perispore is thin and the surface ornamentation is formed by the exospore . The types of ornamentation are tuberculiform-rugulate , verruciform-rugulate or lophate , the spore of most species with the equatoial flange, some species with proximal ridge and distal ridge . The spore morphology of Pteris is stable, and the difference between species is distinct , but the features of spore and sporophyte are not related. The spore of Histiopteris is monolete and bilaterally symmetrical, elliptical in polar view and kidney-shaped in equatorial view . The polar axes are 22 - 23μm long , and equatorial axes are 29 - 36 μm long . The perispore is thin and the surface ornamentation is formed by the exospore . The surface is rugulate . The spore morphology of Histiopteris and Pteris is very differential , put genus Histiopteris in family Pteridaceae is not suitable, according to the feature of spore morphology .     

Studies on Pollen Morphology and Taxonomy of Lespedeza and Its Allied Genera from NE China

The pollen morphology of 11 species and 1 variety in the genus Lespedeza and its allied genera (Campylotropis, Kummerowia) from NE China was examined under light and scanning electron microscopes. 1. Lespedeza Michx. (plate 1:1-6; 2:1-6; 3:1-6; 4:1-2) Pollen grains prolate, rarely subprolate or spheroidal, elliptic or rarely suborbicular in equatorial view, 3-lobed-rounded in polar view, tricolporate, colpus margins smooth or jagged. Polar axis 20.7-33.1μm long, equatorial axis 15.4-20.9 μm long. Exine reticulate or foveolate, lumina verrucose or smooth under SEM. 2. Campylotropis Bge. (plate 4:3-4) One species in NE China, C. macrocarpa (Bge.) Rehd. Pollen grains prolate, elliptic in equatorial view, 3-lobed-rounded in polar view, 3-colporate, colpus linear, 25.1μm long, 1.79μm broad, colpus margins jagged, with a series of verrucae equal in size along one side visible under SEM. Polar axis 19.7μm long, equatorial axis 14.6μm long. Exine reticulate, lumina nearly rounded, verrucose at periphery under SEM. 3. Kummerowia Schindl. (plate 4:5-6) Pollen grains spheroidal, oblate or prolate, elliptic in equatorial view, obtuse-triangular in polar view, tricolporate, colups linear, 25.1μm long, 2.01μm broad, colpus margins sinuate. Polar axis 24.7-27.9μm long, equatorial axis 19.7-26.6μm long. Exine reticulate or subreticulate, lumina nearly rounded, with verrocae visible under SEM. According to the pollen morphology of Lespedeza and its allied genera, the division of Lespedeza (s. lat.) into Lespedeza (S. str.), Campylotropis and Kummarowia by Schindler (1912) is reasonable. The subdivision of Lespedeza (s. str.) into Sect. Macrolespedeza and Sect. Lespedeza by many botanists, and the treatment of Lespedeze juncea (L. f.) Pers. var. inschanica Maxim. as an independent species (i.e. Lespedeza inschanics (Maxim). Schindl.) are also supported by the pollen morphology shown in the present work.     

PHLOEM ANATOMY OF THE CARBONIFEROUS COENOPTERID FERNS ANACHOROPTERIS AND ANKYROPTERIS

Phloem histology in the petioles of two genera of Pennsylvanian ferns is detailed from coal balls collected at various localities in North America. Both Ankyropteris and Anachoropteris have primary phloem that completely surrounds the central xylem trace and is separated from it by a parenchymatous sheath. Ankyropteris contains very narrow (about 13.5 μm diam) sieve elements and a few strands of phloem parenchyma. End walls are either horizontal or slightly oblique and sieve areas as well as scattered individual pores have been observed. Anachoropteris phloem contains two different sizes of sieve elements. Small sieve elements that surround the C-shaped trace are similar to those seen in Ankyropteris. Larger elements (approximately 50–120 μm in diam) are present only within the C-shaped trace, and are elongate (up to 2.5 mm) with very oblique end walls. Sieve areas on these large cells are conspicuous, 5–8.5 μm in diam and aggregated into groups. The cell wall within each sieve area appears to be composed of criss-crossed fibrillar material. Phloem anatomy in these two ferns is compared to that previously described in other Carboniferous vascular cryptogams, as well as that known from extant plants.     

A New Freshwater Amoeba: Cochliopodium pentatrifurcatum n. sp. (Amoebozoa,Amorphea)

Cochliopodium pentatrifurcatum n. sp. (ATCC^© 30935^TM) is described based on light microscopic morphology, fine structure, and molecular genetic evidence. Cochliopodium pentatrifurcatum n. sp. (length ~ 25 μm) is characterized by surface microscales (0.3 μm tall) containing a circular porous base (~ 0.6 μm diam.) with a thin peripheral rim. Five radially arranged feet, emanating from the base, support a short central column terminating apically as a funnel‐shaped collar (~ 0.5 μm diam.) composed of five radial, trifurcate rays extending from the center toward a thin peripheral rim. The central spine is 0.5–0.6 μm long. The comparative morphologies and combined molecular genetic evidence, SSU‐rDNA and COI, indicate that the new species falls in a clade sufficiently different from other species to suggest that it is a valid new species.     

The comparative pollen morphology of genera Matricaria L. and Tripleurospemum Sch. Bip. (Asteraceae) in Turkey

Pollen morphology of four Matricaria species and 28 Tripleurospermum species was investigated with light microscopies (LM) and scanning electron microscopies (SEM). Pollen slides were prepared using Wodehouse technique. Measurements were based on 20 or more pollen grains per specimen. For SEM studies, dried pollen grains were transferred on aluminum stubs and coated with gold for 4 min in a sputter-coater. The pollen grains of Matricaria and Tripleurospermum are radially symmetric and isopolar. The pollen grains of the Matricaria are oblate-spheroidal with the polar axes 16.6–31.2 μm and the equatorial axes 18.7–23.9 μm. Tripleurospermum is oblate-spheroidal, suboblate and prolate-spheroidal with the polar axes 15.6–32.2 μm and the equatorial axes 17.7-38.5 μm. The pollen grains of Tripleurospermum are operculate and tricolporate. Matricaria is operculate and usually tricolporate or rarely syncolporate, tricolpate and tetracolporate. The pollen grain of both taxa shows echinate ornamentation. The spines are commonly conical with a broadened base and a tapered apical portion. The spine length varies between 1.8–4 μm in Tripleurospermum and 2.3–3.3 μm in Matricaria. The width of spines varies between 2.8–4.6 μm in Tripleurospermum and 2.4–3.6 μm in Matricaria. Inter-spinal area shows granulate–perforate, reticulate–perforate, rugulate–perforate ornamentations and the tectum surrounding the spine base is micro perforate. Overall exine thickness ranges from 2.8 to 4.8 μm in Tripleurospermum, 3.6 to 5.2 μm in Matricaria. Intine is thicker under pores in Tripleurospermum (0.3–0.62 μm) than in Matricaria (0.6–0.8 μm). Inter-spinal ornamentations, pollen shape and the numbers of perforations at the spin base have been observed as important morphological characters.     

Pollen morphology of the East Asiatic genus Chelonopsis (Lamioideae: Lamiaceae) and allied genera,with reference to taxonomic implications and potential pollination ecology

Pollen grains of 15 taxa of the genus Chelonopsis (14 spp. and 1 variety) from China and Japan and 6 species of the closely related genera Bostrychanthera (1 species) and Gomphostemma (5 species) were examined by light and scanning electron microscopy. Of these, the pollen morphology of 18 taxa was studied for the first time. Pollen grains were found to be tricolpate with polar lengths of 20.8–30.0 μm and equatorial widths of 17.5–27.3 μm. The basic shape of the pollen in most taxa is subprolate or prolate-spheroidal, but spheroidal, subprolate-spheroidal, oblate-spheroidal, and prolate-subprolate grains are also found in some species. The surface is generally reticulate or suprareticulate in Chelonopsis and granulate in Bostrychanthera. In comparison with those of Chelonopsis and Bostrychanthera, the pollen grain surfaces of Gomphostemma are more diverse. In Chelonopsis, pollen is taxonomically useful at the sectional level, and some grains provide enough characters for species delimitation. The potential pollination ecology of cellular hairs on the anthers of Chelonopsis and Bostrychanthera is also briefly discussed.     

GROWTH RESPONSES FROM WHOLE FRUIT AND FRUIT HALVES OF LEMON CULTURED IN VITRO

A comparative growth study was conducted on juice vesicles cultured in the form of various fruit explant types (equatorially bissected fruit halves, longitudinally bissected fruit halves, one-eighth sections of fruit, one-quarter sections of fruit, whole carpel segments, 2 or 3 mm thick equatorial slices of fruit, and 1 cm² fruit endocarp pieces) from 15 mm diam Citrus limon (L.) Burm. f. cv. Eureka lemons. Juice vesicles within equatorial fruit halves produced the least amount of callus. Furthermore, these juice vesicles grew similarly to juice vesicles occurring in the tree grown fruit. A study of cultured equatorial fruit halves using 10–45 mm diam lemons was then conducted. Fruit half cultures containing juice vesicles could be readily established from 15–45 mm diam lemons. Vesicles from 10 mm diam fruit halves, however, invariably produced callus. Vesicles cultured within fruit halves produced proportionately less callus as their fruit diam increased. Juice vesicles cultured in 15–30 mm diam fruits lost their original green color and turned opaque as they matured (i.e., after 3–6 months in culture). A method is also presented, whereby whole lemon fruits can be established and maintained in vitro. Lemons, 35–45 mm in diam, were the best explant sources for establishing whole fruit cultures. Juice vesicles in whole fruit cultures may remain viable for up to 8 months in culture.     

POLLEN MORPHOLOGY AND SYSTEMATIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG NEW WORLD SPECIES IN TRIBE ANTIRRHINEAE (SCROPHULARIACEAE)

The morphology of mature pollen grains among 12 New World genera in tribe Antirrhineae has been examined with light and scanning electron microscopy. Pollen from 29 American species have mean polar diam that range from 17 to 26 μm, have a tectate structure with perforate, microreticulate, or reticulate surface pattern, and are subspheroidal to prolate, and trizonocolporate with fusiform or narrowly oblong colpi that are free or occasionally fused at the poles. Among the genera, pollen size is positively associated with style length but not haploid chromosome number. Three major morphological categories are recognized based on grain shape, exine structural pattern, and colpus shape. Two of these morphotypes each characterize individual genera (Mohavea, Linaria). The other morphological category includes ten New World genera and has been divided into three subcategories based on variation in lumina diam and intermittent occurrence of fused colpi. Only Antirrhinum and Pseudorontium have species or populations with pollen in more than one subcategory. Concordance of morphological, anatomical, chromosomal, and palynological data suggests that Linaria and Mohavea are best placed in separate subtribes from other native American genera. Compared to Old World taxa in tribe Antirrhineae, the most common pollen type (subspheroidal, microreticulate, apocolpate, fusiform colpi) may be the most primitive. Pollen grains with fused colpi (Antirrhinum p.p., Pseudorontium) and perforate (Mohavea) or reticulate (Holmgrenanthe) structural patterns probably represent derived types.     

Beschorneria yuccoides and Asimina triloba (L.) Dun: Examples for proximal polar germinating pollen in angiosperms

Beschorneria yuccoides (Agavaceae) microspores are arranged mostly in planar tetrads. Later on, the pollen grains of the tetrad usually fall apart, but sometimes remain loosely connected by ektexine elements. The ektexine consists of a tectum, of short columellae, and of a thin, discontinuous foot layer. An endexine is absent. The bilayered intine is without any additional thickening that would usually indicate an aperture region. From this point of view the pollen grain might be considered as omniaperturate. The pollen ornamentation is reticulate with wide lumina and robust, smooth muri.

The pollen grains show an indistinct sulcus characterised by a loose reticulate ornamentation. The sulcus is not exactly at the distal pole, but shifted towards the equator. No pollen tubes are formed regularly at the sulcus. Instead, pollen tubes are normally formed at the proximal pollen face. The proximal area, indicating a large germination field, is morphologically and functionally clearly an aperture (a germination zone); however, it does not represent a sulcus. The proximal face of all pollen grains appears as ornamented, with some exine lumps.

Asimina triloba (Annonaceae) pollen is shed in permanent planar or decussate tetrads. The distal sides are microreticulate to foveolate, and do not show an aperture; the psilate proximal sides are the germination areas of A. triloba.

The presence of apertures placed at the proximal pole was reported for distinct taxa of several angiosperm families. For Drosera, Dionaea (Droseraceae) and most probably for the diaperturate Cuphea species (Lythraceae) the existence of polar germination areas can be excluded. However, in some Annonaceae taxa with permanent tetrads (Annona cherimola, Asimina triloba) a situation similar to Beschorneria might be present, and indeed a proximal polar pollen tube is formed. Beschorneria yuccoides, Annona cherimola and Asimina triloba are unequivocal examples of angiosperm pollen with an exactly proximal aperture (germination area).     

两种山羊豆属植物花粉形态与花粉母细胞减数分裂行为观察

采用扫描电镜与1%醋酸洋红压片的方法,观察山羊豆属两种植物的花粉形态及花粉母细胞减数分裂行为,从而为山羊豆属的遗传学及分类学提供依据。两种山羊豆属植物立体形状为近球形或扁球形,均具三孔沟,穴—网状纹饰,极面观为近三角形,赤道面观为圆形。东方山羊豆的大小为:赤道轴×极轴=14.3（13.5～15.0）×12.6（12.1～13.7）μm,山羊豆的大小为：赤道轴×极轴=13.7（12.3～14.8）×12.4（10.6～13.0）μm.花粉母细胞减数分裂为同时型胞质分裂,终变期染色体构型为8Ⅱ,没有出现落后染色体及微核现象。小孢子四分体为四面体型。减数分裂过程有一定规律,与花蕾大小,颜色有密切关系。减数分裂进程存在一定差异,同一个花蕾中的不同花药花粉母细胞分裂速度基本相同,所处的时期及观察的分裂相一致,在同一个花药中的不同花粉母细胞中,可见各种不同时期的细胞。     

Spore Morphology and Taxonomy of Polypodiaceae

The examination of spores belonging to eight species representing five genera of Polypodiaceae reveals that they are typically free, anisopolar and monolete (bilateral). In a majority of cases the spores are yellow and have a short laesura—about half the length of the greater equatorial axis of the spore. Generally, the spores are elliptical in polar view and plano-convex to concavo-convex in profile view but in cross section they vary in shape. The average measurements in equatorial plane range from 44 μ to 71 μ whereas in the polar direction they vary from 27 μ to 47 μ. The exine is thin (about 2.5 μ and nearly smooth (laevigose-scabrous-foveolose) in Microsorium and Phymatodes but in the other investigated genera, it is thicker, possessing different types of projections. P: E varies from 4.6 to 5.5: 8. Oil globules are present in the spores of some species.

Available data on morphology of spores of Polypodiaceae have been tabulated in two tables on a comparative basis and their importance in taxonomy and phylogeny of some genera have been discussed.     

STRUCTURALLY PRESERVED PHLOEM ZONE TISSUE IN RHYNIA

Optical microscopic studies of longitudinal sections of permineralized Rhynia axes from the lower (?) Devonian Rhynie Chert of Scotland have revealed the occurrence of numerous pores, 3–8 μm in diam, distributed along lateral cell walls in the zone of tissue commonly regarded as phloem. In face view, these pores appear to be composed of circular subunits less than 1 μm in diam. A conductive function for the complex tissue of the Rhynia phloem zone seems evidenced by the occurrence of these pores and by the thin-walled, elongate, tapered nature of the component cells.     

THE SPORANGIUM OF HORNEOPHYTON LIGNIERI (RHYNIOPHYTINA)

Numerous sporangia of Horneophyton lignieri from the Rhynie Chert locality in Scotland have been studied. The sporangia are branched, with two to four columellate lobes of varying length, and a continuous sporogenous zone or cavity occurs among the lobes. Unbranched sporangia, generally thought to be the typical form for the plant have not been found, and their presence is not established. Although not definitely proven, evidence suggests that the sporangia opened by means of a small apical pore or stoma. An area of thick-walled cells at the apex of each sporangial lobe probably played some role in this opening. Radial, trilete, azonate spores ranging from 39–49 μm in diam, with curvaturae perfectae are produced most commonly in tetrahedral tetrads and occasionally in isobilateral tetrads. Matters of spore preservation and possible ornamentation are discussed. The branched sporangia of this genus are unique among bryophytes and vascular plants and provide some evidence that certain synangia may have arisen from a single sporangium rather than from multiple sporangia borne singly at the tips of ultimate branches.     

我国特有珍稀濒危植物银缕梅(Parrotia subaequalis)的花粉形态研究

采用光学显微镜和扫描电镜对产自安徽省大别山金缕梅科银缕梅(Parrotia subaequalis)的花粉进行了观察和研究。银缕梅花粉粒近球形或长球形,P/E(极轴/赤道轴)=1.27(1.14-1.32),赤道面观椭圆形,极面观圆三角形或三裂圆形,大小为37.3(32.0～41.0)×29.4(25.0～36.0)μm。具3沟,沟狭长,几达两极。花粉外壁厚2.0～2.4μm,外层与内层近等厚,柱状层基柱发达。外壁纹饰在光镜下为细网状,在扫描电镜下为粗网状纹饰,网脊上有刺瘤。现生银缕梅具有鲜明的生境和分布格局特点,本研究为利用地层中银缕梅化石花粉重建古环境、古气候等提供了现代孢粉学参考依据,也为研究金缕梅科的起源、演化和现代地理分布提供了科学依据。     

Comparative pollen morphology of annual Trigonella L. (Fabaceae) in Turkey

Pollen morphology of 38 Trigonella species was investigated with light microscopies and scanning electron microscopies. Pollen slides were prepared using Wodehouse technique. The pollen grains of Trigonella members are radially symmetrical and isopolar, their outlines are oblong in equatorial view and circular in polar view. Amb is semicircular. The pollen grains are prolate-spheroidal, oblate-spheroidal, suboblate, spheroidal, and prolate with the polar axes 13.5–49.9 μm and the equatorial axes 10.4–43.7 μm. The smallest dimensions are observed in T. spinosa and T. brachycarpa, and the largest in T. carica and T. rhytidocarpa. The pollen grains of Trigonella taxa are usually tricolporate or rarely tricolpate, pantocolporate, tetracolporate, and tricolpodiporate. Various ornamentation types were observed: Microreticulate (section Samaroideae, Pectinatae, Falcatulae, Cylindricae, Bucerates, Reflexae, Isthmocarpae, Capitatae and Foenum-graecum), rugulate-scabrate (section Lunatae, Uncinatae), perforate (T. halophila, T. rigida and T. carica from section Bucerates) and retipilatae (section Biebersteinianae) at equator region and psilate-perforate (section Samaroideae, Pectinatae, Bucerates, Reflexae, Isthmocarpae, Foenum-graecum, T. coelesyriaca, T. cilicica), rugulate-scabrate (section Lunatae, Uncinatae), microreticulate (Falcatulae, Cylindricae and Foenum-graecum) and retipilatae (section Biebersteinianae) at polar region. Ornamentations, pollen shape and the aperture type have been observed as important morphological characters.     

Fine Structure of the Plasmodia and Myxospore of Ellipsomyxa gobioides n. sp. (Myxozoa) Found in the Gallbladder of Gobioides broussonnetii (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Lower Amazon River

A fish infecting myxosporean Ellipsomyxa gobioides n. sp. is described in the gallbladder of the Amazonian dragon fish Gobioides broussonnetii. Irregular disporous plasmodia (up to ~30 μm in diameter) with long branched and anastomosed pseudopodia were found attached to the gallbladder wall. Mature ellipsoid myxospores occurring floating in the bile measured 6.8 (6.5–7.0) μm (n = 30) long, 7.2 (6.9–7.5) μm (n = 15) wide, and 13.1 (12.8–13.5) (n = 25) thick. They had smooth thin valves elongated in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the straight central transverse sutural line. The two ellipsoidal polar capsules (PC) opened some distance from the sutural line on opposite sides, each measuring 4.6 (4.3–4.8) μm (n = 15) long and 2.5 (2.1–2.7) μm (n = 20) wide. Distance between PC 3.5 (3.1–3.8) μm (n = 15) in apical view. The polar filament was isofilar and consisted of a single coil with five or six turns. The objective of this study was to characterize this new species based on its morphological differences from the three previously described species. This is the first reported species of genus Ellipsomyxa from among the South American fauna.     

Ceratomyxa tunisiensis n. sp. (Myxosporea: Bivalvulida) from the Gallbladders of Two Carangid Fish Caught Off the Coast of Tunisia

A new coelozoic Myxozoan species, Ceratomyxa tunisiensis n. sp., was found infecting the gallbladders of two carangid fish, Caranx rhonchus and Trachurus trachurus (Perciforme, Carangidae), from the Gulf of Gabès, on the southern coast of Tunisia. The parasite develops in spherical mono‐, diplo‐, or polysporic tropozoites in the gallbladder of the hosts. Mature spores are typical of the genus Ceratomyxa. They are transversely elongated and narrowly crescent‐shaped with a slightly convex anterior and concave posterior, and measure 23 ± 0. 27 (20–25) μm width × 6 ± 0.26 (5–8) μm in length. Spore shell valves are symmetrical with rounded ends. Two spherical polar capsules situated on either side of the sutural line measure 2.2 μm (2.0–3.0) in diam. Periodical sampling of C. rhonchus and T. trachurus from Marsh 2012 to February 2013 showed that infection due to C. tunisiensis occurs in 59% and 69% of the examined fish, respectively. Molecular analysis based on the small subunit (SSU) rRNA sequence shows high genetic divergence with all other ceratomyxid species. A Maximum Likelihood phylogenetic tree shows association with the species C. leatharjecketi Fiala, kova, Kodadkova, Freeman, Barto?ova‐Sojkova, and Atkinson, 2015 reported from the gallbladder of Aluterusmonoceros (L.) caught in the Andaman Sea, off Malaysia. Nonetheless, the SSU rRNA sequences of C. tunisiensis and C. leatharjecketi have only a 90% similarity.