Ophiotaenia echidis n. sp. (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) from the saw-scaled viper, Echis carinatus sochureki Stemmler (Ophidia: Viperidae), one of the world's deadliest snakes, from the United Arab Emirates

0553133 - BC 2022 RIV AU eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
de Chambrier, A. - Alves, P.V. - Schuster, R. - Scholz, Tomáš
Ophiotaenia echidis n. sp. (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) from the saw-scaled viper, Echis carinatus sochureki Stemmler (Ophidia: Viperidae), one of the world's deadliest snakes, from the United Arab Emirates.
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife. Roč. 14, APR 2021 (2021), s. 341-354. ISSN 2213-2244. E-ISSN 2213-2244
Grant CEP: GA MŠMT(CZ) LM2015062
Institucionální podpora: RVO:60077344
Klíčová slova: eucestoda proteocephalidea * parasite * tapeworms * gen. * platyhelminthes * performance * madagascar * phylogeny * diversity * selection * Tapeworms * Onchoproteocephalidea * Phylogenetic relationships * Taxonomy * Morphology * Snakes * United Arab Emirates
Obor OECD: Genetics and heredity (medical genetics to be 3)
Impakt faktor: 2.773, rok: 2021
Způsob publikování: Open access
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213224421000389?via%3Dihub

Ophiotaenia echidis n. sp. (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) is described from the intestine of one of the world's deadliest snakes, the saw-scaled viper Echis carinatus sochureki Stemmler (Ophidia: Viperidae) in the United Arab Emirates. The new species differs from other species of the non-monophyletic Ophiotaenia by the position of testes in two longitudinal lines on both sides of the uterus, and by the large size of an embryophore (diameter of 44-55 mu m versus less than 40 mu m in other species). Phylogenetic reconstructions based on lsrDNA and concatenated lsrDNA + COI datasets place the new species among proteocephalids from unrelated zoogeographical realms but mostly infecting venomous snakes. In all analyses, O. echidis n. sp. exhibited a strongly supported sister relationship with O. lapata Rambeloson, Ranaivoson et de Chambrier, 2012, a parasite of a pseudoxyrhophiid snake endemic to Madagascar. Despite a shared close evolutionary history between these taxa, morphological synapomorphies remain unclear, which impedes the erection of a new genus to accommodate them. A list of the 71 tapeworms of the former, non-monophyletic subfamily Proteocephalinae, parasitising snakes and lizards, including species inquirendae, and the phylogenetically closely related Thaumasioscolex didelphidis from opossum, with selected characteristics, is also provided, together with a checklist of helminth parasites reported from E. carinatus.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0328140