A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF PROTEOCEPHALIDEAN (CESTODA), FROM CLARIAS CATFISHES (SILURIFORMES: CLARIIDAE) IN AFRICA

0328296 - BC 2010 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
de Chambrier, A. - Scholz, Tomáš - Beletew, M. - Mariaux, J.
A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF PROTEOCEPHALIDEAN (CESTODA), FROM CLARIAS CATFISHES (SILURIFORMES: CLARIIDAE) IN AFRICA.
Journal of Parasitology. Roč. 95, č. 1 (2009), s. 160-168. ISSN 0022-3395. E-ISSN 1937-2345
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LC522; GA ČR GA524/04/0342; GA ČR GA524/08/0885
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z60220518
Keywords : CESTODA * CLARIAS * AFRICA
Subject RIV: GJ - Animal Vermins ; Diseases, Veterinary Medicine
Impact factor: 1.195, year: 2009

A new proteocephalidean cestode is described from two catfishes, Clarias gariepinus (type-host) and C. cf. anguillaris (Siluriformes: Clariidae), from Ethiopia (type-locality), Sudan, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, and a new genus, Barsonella, is proposed to accommodate it. Barsonella lafoni, the type and only species of the new genus, is characterised mainly by the possession of an additional opening of each sucker; circular musculature on the anterior margin of suckers, serving as a sphincter; a small thin-walled glandular apical organ; absence of well-developed osmoregulatory canals in mature, pregravid, and gravid proglottids; and a large strobila, up to 173 mm long and 3.2 mm wide.
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