Folia Parasitologica 55[2] 111-121 (2008) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2008.015

Bothriocephalidean tapeworms (Cestoda) from the blackfish, Centrolophus niger (Perciformes: Centrolophidae)

Roman Kuchta1,2, Tomáš Scholz2, Jan Brabec1,2, Dagmar Jirsová1, Andrea Gustinelli3
1 Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
2 Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
3 Department of Public Veterinary Health and Animal Pathology, University of Bologna, Italy

Bothriocephalidean tapeworms parasitic in the blackfish, Centrolophus niger (Gmelin) (Perciformes: Centrolophidae), are redescribed on the basis of the evaluation of freshly collected specimens and museum material. This evaluation enabled us to supplement species diagnoses by new morphological characters of potential use for phylogenetic analyses, including the data from scanning electron microscopical observations, and to provide a key to identification of the following four species occurring in this fish: Amphicotyle heteropleura (Diesing, 1850); Milanella familiaris Kuchta et Scholz, 2008 (both Triaenophoridae); Bothriocotyle solinosomum Ariola, 1900; and Echinophallus wageneri (Monticelli, 1890) (both Echinophallidae). Large spiniform microtriches were observed on the surface of the posterodorsal margin of segments of B. solinosomum, E. wageneri and M. familiaris. The invalidity of Atelemerus Guiart, 1935, first proposed by Bray et al. (1994), is supported by the present data and its type species, A. acanthodes Guiart, 1935, is newly synonymised with E. wageneri.

Keywords: Bothriocephalidea, species survey, Amphicotyle heteropleura, Bothriocotyle solinosomum, Echinophallus wageneri, Milanella familiaris, morphology, taxonomy, identification key

Received: December 7, 2007; Accepted: January 18, 2008; Published: June 1, 2008  Show citation

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Kuchta, R., Scholz, T., Brabec, J., Jirsová, D., & Gustinelli, A. (2008). Bothriocephalidean tapeworms (Cestoda) from the blackfish, Centrolophus niger (Perciformes: Centrolophidae). Folia Parasitologica, 55(2), 111-121. doi: 10.14411/fp.2008.015
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