<Emphasis Type="Italic">Acanthocephaloides irregularis</Emphasis> n. sp. (Acanthocephala: Arhythmacanthidae) from marine fishes off the Ukrainian Black Sea coast |
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Authors: | Omar M Amin Mehmet C Oğuz Richard A Heckmann Yahya Tepe Yuriy Kvach |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Parasitic Diseases, 11445 E. Via Linda # 2-419, Scottsdale, AZ 85259, USA;(2) Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ataturk University, 25240 Erzurum, Turkey;(3) Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA;(4) Odessa Branch of the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, NAS of Ukraine, Vul. Pushkinska 37, Odessa, 65125, Ukraine |
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Abstract: | Acanthocephaloides irregularis n. sp. (Arhythmacanthidae) is described from four species of marine fishes in the Gulf of Odessa and Sukhyi Lyman, Ukrainan
Black Sea waters, making it the tenth species of the genus. The hosts are the combtooth blenny Parablennius zvonimiri (Kolombatovic) (Blenniidae), the mushroom goby Ponticola eurycephalus (Kessler) (Gobiidae), the tubenose goby Proterorhinus marmoratus (Pallas) (Gobiidae) and the black-striped pipefish Syngnathus abaster Risso (Syngnathidae). The new species is most similar to its closest relative, Acanthocephaloides propinquus (Dujardin, 1845), in proboscis shape and armature (12 longitudinal rows of 5 hooks) and the shape of the trunk, reproductive
system and lemnisci, but differs in having randomly distributed trunk spines. These trunk spines are organised in circular
rings of individual spines separated by aspinose zones. The new species is also unique in having an anterior trunk collar,
a very large triangular cephalic ganglion, nucleated pouches at the posterior end of the proboscis receptacle, and hooks and
spines with roots bearing anterior manubria. Valid and invalid species of Acanthocephaloides Meyer, 1932 are listed and a key to all ten species is included. |
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