Pseudascarophis brasiliensis sp. nov. (Nematoda: Cystidicolidae) parasitic in the Bermuda chub Kyphosus sectatrix (Perciformes: Kyphosidae) from southeastern Brazil

Felipe Bisaggio Pereira; Aldenice de Nazaré Pereira; Juan Tomás Timi; José Luis Luque

doi:10.1590/S0074-0276108042013013

Pseudascarophis brasiliensis sp. nov. (Nematoda: Cystidicolidae) parasitic in the Bermuda chub Kyphosus sectatrix (Perciformes: Kyphosidae) from southeastern Brazil

Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2013 Jun;108(4):476-80. doi: 10.1590/S0074-0276108042013013.

Authors

Felipe Bisaggio Pereira¹, Aldenice de Nazaré Pereira, Juan Tomás Timi, José Luis Luque

Affiliation

¹ Curso de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Veterinárias, Departamento de Parasitologia Animal, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, RJ, Brasil.

Abstract

A new species of Pseudascarophis (Nematoda: Cystidicolidae) found in the stomach of Kyphosus sectatrix (Linnaeus) (Kyphosidae), off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is described. The new species can be differentiated from the other congeners by the presence of lateral alae, distinct but inconspicuous cephalic papillae at the anterior end, three pairs of precloacal and one pair of adcloacal papillae in males, egg morphology and morphometry of glandular oesophagus and spicules. Pseudascarophis tropica is transferred to Ascarophis as Ascarophis tropica (Solov'eva) comb. n. due to its ambiguous diagnosis.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Brazil
Female
Male
Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
Nematoda / anatomy & histology*
Nematoda / classification
Nematoda / isolation & purification
Nematoda / ultrastructure
Perciformes / parasitology*

Grants and funding

Financial support: CONICET (PIP # 112-200801-00024), ANPCYT (PICT # 02199), UNMdP (EXA 531/10), CAPES, CNPq FB was supported by a doctoral fellowship from CAPES, AP was supported by a doctoral fellowship from CNPq, JTT received financial support from CONICET and ANPCYT, JLL was supported by a research fellowship from CNPq.