Title
Neotropical Monogenoidea 62. Biotodomella mirospinata gen. nov., sp. nov. (Polyonchoinea: Dactylogyridae): A parasite of the gills of Biotodoma cupido (Cichliformes: Cichlidae), from the Peruvian Amazon
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Pensoft Publishers
Abstract
Biotodomella gen. nov. (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae) is proposed to accommodate Biotodomella mirospinata sp. nov., found on the gills of Biotodoma cupido (Heckel, 1840) (“cara bonita” or “green-streaked eartheater”), a freshwater cichlid from the Peruvian Amazon. The new genus and species differ from other Neotropical dactylogyrids in having the hooks of each hook pair well-differentiated from the remaining pairs, shafts varying in robustness, weakly sclerotized expansions at the proximal end of shaft, and a dorsal anchor with grooved shaft, bifid point. This study represents the first record of a monogenoid from a species of Biotodoma Eigenmann & Kennedy, 1903.
Volume
36
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Parasitología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85077886502
Source
Zoologia
ISSN of the container
19844670
Sponsor(s)
We thank the project Acuicultura of the Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana for their assistance in the field study. The study was partially supported by a grant of the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Brazil. WAB is a research associate of CNPq, Brazil.
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