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A. Jones, R.A. Bray, D.I. Gibson (Eds.): Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 2.

Anna Faltýnková, Petr Horák

Folia Parasitologica 52[4] 322 (2005) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2005.044  

CABI Publishing, Wallingford & The Natural History Museum, London, UK, 2005. ISBN 0-85199-547-0, hardback, 768 pp., 774 Figs. Price GBP 150.00, USD 275.00.

Fish-isolated Naegleria strains and their phylogeny inferred from ITS and SSU rDNA sequences

Iva Dyková, Hana Pecková, Ivan Fiala, Helena Dvořáková

Folia Parasitologica 53[3] 172-180 (2006) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2006.023  

Effort was made to identify Naegleria strains isolated from organs of fish, using phylogenetic analyses of SSU rDNA and ITS sequences. Eighteen fish-isolated strains studied enlarged substantially the so far available set of Naegleria strains characterized by both molecular markers. The phylogenetic analyses of separate and concatenated SSU rDNA and ITS sequences revealed phylogenetic relationships of strains under study; however, they failed to solve classification of fish-isolated strains into species. The sequence similarity of strain-representatives of Naegleria species as well as data obtained on intragenomic variation of...

Ailinella mirabilis gen. n., sp. n. (Eucestoda: Pseudophyllidea) from Galaxias maculatus (Pisces: Galaxiidae) in the Andean-Patagonian region of Argentina

Alicia A. Gilde Pertierra, Liliana G. Semenas

Folia Parasitologica 53[4] 276-286 (2006) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2006.034  

Ailinella gen. n. (Pseudophyllidea: Triaenophoridae) is proposed to accommodate Ailinella mirabilis sp. n. from Galaxias maculatus (Jenyns, 1842), a freshwater fish inhabiting the Andean lakes in Argentinean Patagonia. Ailinella belongs to the Triaenophoridae because it has a marginal genital pore, a follicular vitelline gland, and a ventral uterine pore. The new genus can be distinguished from other triaenophorids by the following combination of characters: a small body size, a low number of proglottides, which are longer than wide, a truncated pyramidal to globular scolex, a rectangular apical disc, presence of the neck,...

Structure of the cephalic end of Ascarophis mexicana (Nematoda: Cystidicolidae), as revealed by SEM

František Moravec, David González-Solís

Folia Parasitologica 54[2] 155-156 (2007) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2007.021  

Scanning electron microscopy of the cystidicolid nematode Ascarophis mexicana Moravec, Salgado-Maldonado et Vivas-Rodríguez, 1995 enabled the first detailed study of its cephalic structure. In contrast to most Ascarophis species, its pseudolabia are highly reduced and sublabia are unlobed and weakly developed. Similascarophis is considered a synonym of Ascarophis, to which two its species are transferred as A. maulensis (Muñoz, González et George-Nascimento, 2004) comb. n. and A. chilensis (Muñoz, González et George-Nascimento, 2004) comb. n.

A. Hoerauf and R.U. Rao (Eds.): Wolbachia: A Bug\'s Life in another Bug.

Václav Hypša

Folia Parasitologica 55[1] 60 (2008) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2008.008  

Issues in Infectious Diseases, Vol. 5. Karger, Basel, 2007. ISBN 978-3-8055-8180-6, VIII + 150 pp., 25 figs., 7 in colour, 1 tab., hard cover. Price: EUR 139.50, USD 177.25.

Ultrastructure of microtriches on the scolex of Cyathocephalus truncatus (Cestoda: Spathe-bothriidea)

Céline Levron, Tomáš Scholz, Bahram S. Dezfuli

Folia Parasitologica 55[4] 309-312 (2008) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2008.039  

The scolex surface of the mature spathebothriidean Cyathocephalus truncatus (Pallas, 1781), a parasite of the brown trout Salmo trutta fario L., was studied using scanning and transmission electron microscopy. A particular attention was paid to microtriches, unique structure on the surface of the Cestoda. The scolex of C. truncatus is covered with two types of filiform microtriches (filitriches): aciculate (≈ 3 µm long) and capillate (≈ 10 µm long). Capillate microtriches, which have never been reported in any other spathebothriideans, are described for the first time using transmission electron microscopy....

Development of the philometrids Philometra overstreeti and Philometroides paralichthydis in the experimentally infected copepod Oithona colcarva

Timothy P. Bryan, Lam C. Tsoi, Isaurede Buron

Folia Parasitologica 55[4] 313-315 (2008) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2008.040  

Philometra overstreeti Moravec et de Buron, 2006 and Philometroides paralichthydis Moravec et de Buron, 2006 are common parasites of the southern flounder, Paralichthys lethostigma Jordan et Gilbert. Because the life cycles of these parasites are unknown, our goal was to assess whether species of copepod commonly found in our estuaries could serve as intermediate hosts for these philometrids. Individuals of five species of copepods were collected and exposed to L1 larvae of each philometrid species. The cyclopoid Oithona colcarva Bowman was the only species to become successfully in-fected. Successive moulting of philometrid...

Redescription and systematic status of Neocapillaria phoxini Yu et Wang, 1994 (Nematoda: Capil-lariidae)

František Moravec, Pin Nie, Guitang Wang

Folia Parasitologica 55[4] 316-318 (2008) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2008.041  

Re-examination of the syntypes of the capillariid nematode Neocapillaria phoxini Yu et Wang, 1994, the type species of Neocapillaria Yu et Wang, 1994, described from the intestine of the freshwater fish Phoxinus lagowskii variegatus Günther (Cyprinidae) from China, confirmed its morphological similarity with species of Freitascapillaria Moravec, 1987, to which it is transferred as Freitascapillaria phoxini (Yu et Wang, 1994) comb. n. Consequently, Neocapillaria Yu et Wang, 1994 (a homonym to Neocapillaria Moravec, 1987) and Sinocapillaria Moravec et Spratt, 1998 become junior synonyms of Freitascapillaria....

S. V. Zinov\'eva (Ed.): Katalog tipovykh ekzemplyarov nematod i akantotsefal Gel\'mintologicheskogo muzeya RAN [Catalogue of nematode and acanthocephalan type specimens in the Helminthological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences]. KMK Scientific Press Ltd., Moscow, 2009. ISBN 978-5-87317-558-1, 457 pp., 232 plates of illustrations. Price RUB 200.00 or EUR 50.00.

František Moravec

Folia Parasitologica 57[1] 16 (2010) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2010.003  

Nudaciraxine imperium sp. n. (Monogenea: Axinidae) from the gills of Mediterranean needlefish Tylosurus acus imperialis (Teleostei: Belonidae)

Manel Châari, Hela Derbel, Lassâd Neifar

Folia Parasitologica 57[1] 31-36 (2010) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2010.005  

Nudaciraxine imperium sp. n. (Monogenea: Axinidae) is described from the gills of the needlefish Tylosurus acus imperialis (Rafinesque) caught in the Gulf of Gabès, Tunisia. This new species mainly differs from both previously described species, Nudaciraxine gracilis (Linton, 1940) Price, 1962 from Strongylura marina (Walbaum) and Nudaciraxine cabosanlucensis Payne, 1990 from Ablennes sp., by having more testes (42 vs. 20-22 and 32, respectively). Nudaciraxine imperium also differs from N. gracilis by having a median vaginal pore (submedian in N. gracilis), narrower clamps (52-70...

In Memoriam - Dr. Jiří Lom: October 24, 1931 - April 9, 2010

Vladimír Bukva, Libor Grubhoffer

Folia Parasitologica 57[2] 156 (2010) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2010.020  

S. Klimpel, M. W. Busch, E. Kellermanns, S. Kleinertz, H. W. Palm: Metazoan Deep-Sea Fish Parasites.

František Moravec

Folia Parasitologica 57[3] 232 (2010) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2010.030  

Verlag Natur & Wissenschaft, Solingen (Germany), 2009. ISBN 978-3-936616-61-3, hardcover, 383 pp., 6 plates of coloured photos, 4 maps. Price EUR 70.00.

Crenosoma brasiliense sp. n. (Nematoda: Metastrongyloidea) parasitic in lesser grison, Galictis cuja (Molina, 1782) (Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Brazil, with a key to species of Crenosoma Molin, 1861

Fabiano M. Vieira, Luís C. Muniz-Pereira, Suelide Souza Lima, Antonio H.A. Moraes Neto, Pamela R. Gonçalves, José L. Luque

Folia Parasitologica 59[3] 187-194 (2012)  

This study describes Crenosoma brasiliense (Nematoda, Metastrongyloidea), a new species parasitic in bronchi and bronchioles of Galictis cuja (Molina) (Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Brazil. This species differs from other 11 species of Crenosoma by having a cuticular projection at the distal end of the spicules, forming a prominent blade at the tip of the spicule, a vulval cuticular appendage with a triangular shape and prominent vulval lips. There are no previous records of species of Metastrongyloidea in G. cuja or species of Crenosoma in South America. Therefore, the new species represents the first host record and...

Toxoplasma gondii infection affects cognitive function - corrigendum

Jaroslav Flegr, Wojciech Guenter, Maciej Bieliński, Aleksander Deptuła, Patrycja Zalas-Więcek, Małgorzata Piskunowicz, Krzysztof Szwed, Adam Buciński, Eugenia Gospodarek, Alina Borkowska

Folia Parasitologica 59[4] 253-254 (2012) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2012.035  

Calodium hepaticum (Nematoda: Capillaridae) in a red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in Italy with scanning electron microscopy of the eggs

Fabio Macchioni, Luca Chelucci, Lisa Guardone, Walter Mignone, Maria Cristina Prati, Marta Magi

Folia Parasitologica 60[2] 102-104 (2013) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2013.011  

Abstract: Calodium hepaticum (Bancroft, 1893) Moravec, 1982 (syn. Capillaria hepatica) is a cosmopolitan capillariid nematode, infecting mainly rodents and occasionally other mammals, including humans. Reports of C. hepaticum in canids are rare and the present one is, to the best of our knowledge, the first reported case in a red fox (Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus) in Italy. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) examination of the eggs of C. hepaticum allowed a precise description of the egg morphology, which is one of the most relevant specific characteristics of capillariid nematodes. The egg shell showed a fibrous beam-like...

A review of the currently recognised zoogonid cercariae, including the identification and emergence ecology of Cercaria capricornia XI (Digenea: Zoogonidae) from Nassarius olivaceus (Gastropoda: Nassariidae) in Central Queensland, Australia

Leonie J. Barnett, Terrence L. Miller, Thomas H. Cribb

Folia Parasitologica 61[4] 322-330 (2014) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2014.039  

In the present study, we review the known zoogonid cercariae, summarise their life-cycles and first intermediate host distributions, and present a new cercaria, Cercaria capricornia XI (Digenea: Zoogonidae), which was found in one of three nassariid gastropods, Nassarius olivaceus (Bruguière), surveyed in the intertidal zone in the Capricornia region of Central Queensland, Australia. Morphological data and molecular analysis of the ITS2 rDNA region support placement of this cercaria in the family Zoogonidae but do not allow any further resolution of its identity. There are now fifteen cercariae described as belonging to the Zoogonidae;...

Revision of the genus Afrogyrodactylus Paperna, 1968 (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) with description of two new species from geographically distant localities

Iva Přikrylová, Wilmien J. Luus-Powell

Folia Parasitologica 61[6] 529-536 (2014) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2014.066  

This study revises the originally monotypic genus Afrogyrodactylus Paperna, 1968 (Monogenea), the species of which infect alestid fish (Characiformes) in Africa, and includes new records of these parasites from three geographically distant countries, Senegal, Sudan and South Africa. Morphology of opisthaptoral hooks and bars and nuclear ribosomal DNA data revealed three Afrogyrodactylus species. Afrogyrodactylus girgifae sp. n. is described from the fins of the Sudanese nurse tetra, Brycinus nurse (Rüppell), and A. kingi sp. n. presents from the gill arches of the South African sharptooth tetra, Micralestes acutidens...

A new mite species Schizocoptes daberti sp. n. (Acariformes: Chirodiscidae) from Chrysochloris stuhlmanni Matsche (Afrosoricida: Chrysochloridae) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Andre V. Bochkov

Folia Parasitologica 63:005 (2016) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2016.005  

A new mite species Schizocoptes daberti sp. n. (Acariformes: Chirodiscidae) from Chrysochloris stuhlmanni Matsche (Afrosoricida: Chrysochloridae) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo is described. It differs from the closely related species S. conjugatus Lawrence, 1944 in both sexes by distance si-si at least twice longer than si-se (vs these distances are subequal in S. conjugatus); in females by setae cp 30-40 µm long (vs about 65 µm long), and in males by the very weakly sclerotised posterior parts of the hysteronotal shield (vs strongly sclerotised),...

Some remarks on nematodes of the genus Ascaridia Dujardin, 1845 from birds of Czechoslovakia

V. BARUŠ

Folia Parasitologica 13[2] 170-181 (1966)  

Revision of the helminthofauna of fishes from Czechoslovakia IV. Group of the species Gyrodactylus elegans Nordmann, 1832 (Monogenoidea)

R. ERGENS

Folia Parasitologica 13[3] 212-221 (1966)  

Results of parasitological investigations of Esox lucius L. in the Lipno reservoir

R. ERGENS

Folia Parasitologica 13[3] 222-236 (1966)  

The finding of the species Dactylogyrus nasalis Strelkow et Ha Ky, 1964 (Dactylogyridae: Monogenoidea) in Scardinius erythropthalmus (L.) from the Danube basin

R. ERGENS

Folia Parasitologica 13[3] 278-280 (1966)  

Book reviews, Notes and News

Folia Parasitologica 13[3] X (1966)

Exact correlation in epidemics of pneumocystis pneumonia

K. Kučera

Folia Parasitologica 13[4] 343-360 (1966)  

A study on gonotrophic cycles of the mosquito Aëdes vexans Meig. in South Moravia

Z. Hájková

Folia Parasitologica 13[4] 361-369 (1966)  

Contribution to the histochemistry of the cuticle and cuticular structures of trematodes

J. Šlais, Z. Žďárská

Folia Parasitologica 14[4] 311-319 (1967)  

Shape deviations in eggs of Ascaris lumbricoides

H. LÝSEK

Folia Parasitologica 14[4] 381-383 (1967)  

Species of the genus Rhabdochona Raillet, 1916 (Nematoda: Rhabdochonidae) from fishes of Czechoslovakia

F. MORAVEC

Folia Parasitologica 15[1] 29-40 (1968)  

The histology and histochemistry of the cystogenic cells of the cercaria Echinoparyphium aconiatum Dietz, 1909 . . . .

Z. Žďárská

Folia Parasitologica 15[3] 213-232 (1968)  

Monogenoidea in Cobitis taenia sibirica from Mongolia

R. ERGENS, A. DULMAA

Folia Parasitologica 15[4] 317-321 (1968)