A new species of Loimopapillosum Hargis, 1955 (Monogenea: Monocotylidae) parasitizing Hypanus dipterurus (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) off the Pacific coast of South America, and its phylogenetic relationships

2021 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.D. Chero ◽  
C.L. Cruces ◽  
G. Sáez ◽  
A.G.L. Oliveira ◽  
C.P. Santos ◽  
...  

Abstract A new species of Loimopapillosum Hargis, 1955 is described based on specimens collected from the gills of the diamond stingray, Hypanus dipterurus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1880) (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) captured off Puerto Pizarro, Tumbes Region, northern Peru. Loimopapillosum pascuali n. sp. is distinguished mainly from the type and only species, Loimopapillosum dasyatis Hargis, 1955, by its funnel-shaped male copulatory organ, with an asymmetrical base; the superficial root of the anchor with distal knobs; the deep root of the anchor with a constriction at its base; a single testis; and the number of head organs. Available sequences for members of Monocotylidae in the GenBank as well as partial sequences for the gene 28S and 18S ribosomal DNA from L. pascuali n. sp. were included in phylogenetic analyses, suggesting that Loimoinae (represented in this study by L. pascuali n. sp. and Loimosina sp.) is nested within the Monocotylidae Taschenberg, 1879. Therefore, we confirm the rejection of Loimoidae Price, 1936 and its reincorporation as a subfamily of Monocotylidae, as previously suggested. Loimopapillosum pascuali n. sp. represents the first species of this genus in South America.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3979) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paúl M. Velazco ◽  
Francisca Cunha Almeida ◽  
Vinícius C. Cláudio ◽  
Analía L. Giménez ◽  
Norberto P. Giannini

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1700 (1) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
SYBELLE BELLAY ◽  
RICARDO MASSATO TAKEMOTO ◽  
FABIO HIDEKI YAMADA ◽  
GILBERTO CEZAR PAVANELLI

Sciadicleithrum frequens n. sp. is described from the gills of the acará, Geophagus brasiliensis (Cichlidae), from nine reservoirs in the State of Paraná, Brazil. The new species differs from the others members of Sciadicleithrum in the following features: dorsal anchors more than twice as long as the ventral anchors and hook pair 5 reduced in size. Sciadicleithrum frequens n. sp. is similar to species of this parasite genus from South America by having the male copulatory organ comprising less than 2 rings, and to species of Sciadicleithrum from Central America and southeast Mexico by the presence of longitudinal lateral grooves on the shafts and points of the ventral and dorsal anchors. This new species is the first species of Sciadicleithrum in South America with longitudinal lateral grooves on shafts and point of the ventral and dorsal anchors. It is the first dactylogyrid described from G. brasiliensis, and it is the first species of Sciadicleithrum described from Southern Brazil.


2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 533-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Arturo De-Nova ◽  
Victoria Sosa ◽  
Kenneth J. Wurdack

Enriquebeltrania, a genus of trees and shrubs endemic to Mexico, traditionally has been included in Euphorbiaceae (tribe Adelieae, subfamily Acalyphoideae). It was previously thought to be monotypic with a disjunct distribution on the Yucatan Peninsula and along the Pacific coast in Jalisco and Sinaloa. There is some question about whether Enriquebeltrania should be treated as distinct from Adelia. Morphological and molecular characters (trnL-F spacer and rbcL DNA sequences) were utilized in phylogenetic analyses to determine if Enriquebeltrania belongs to the tribe Adelieae, to test whether it should be recognized as a genus separate from Adelia, and to determine the number of species that should be recognized. Results indicate that Enriquebeltrania does not belong to tribe Adelieae, that it should be recognized as a genus separate from Adelia, and that it consists of two species. The second species, Enriquebeltrania disjuncta, is named and described here.


2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-252
Author(s):  
C. Román–Valencia ◽  
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R. I. Ruiz-C. ◽  
D. C. Taphorn B. ◽  
P. Jiménez-Prado ◽  
...  

A new species of Bryconamericus (Characiformes, Characidae, Stevardiinae) is described from the Pacific coast of northwestern Ecuador, South America. The new species is distinguished from all congeners by the presence in males of bony hooks on the caudal fin rays (vs. absence). The different layers of pigment that constitute the humeral spots have differing degrees of development and structure that are independent of each other. Brown melanophores are distributed in a thin, vertical, superficial layer of the epithelium (layer 1) and in another deeper (layer 2) that overlaps the first and is centered over the lateral–line. B. ecuadorensis has a horizontally oval or elliptical shape layer 2 pigment in the anterior humeral spot (vs. a rectangular or circular layer 2). The new species further differs in having an anterior extension of the caudal peduncle spot (vs. no anterior extension of the caudal peduncle spot) and by having a dark lateral stripe overlaid by the peduncular spot and by the regularly distributed pigmentation on scales on the sides of the body (vs. peduncular spot and other body pigments not superimposed over a dark lateral stripe). Hooks present on all fins of males (vs. hooks present only on anal and pelvic fins of males) distinguishes the new species from B. dahli, the only sympatric congener. Seven other diagnostic characters separating the new taxon from B. dahli are reported. We also include physical, chemical and biological habitat parameters and analyse the impacts from mining on this new species and other organisms present at the type locality.


1979 ◽  
Vol 57 (8) ◽  
pp. 1584-1591 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. Squires

Axiopsis (Axiopsis) caespitosa is a new species of the Axiidae from the Pacific coast of Colombia, South America. It has a carina on the carapace behind the cervical groove but is typically axiopsid. One specimen, the female holotype, was trawled in 90 m and is deposited in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. The species appears to be the Pacific analogue of the Atlantic species A. (A.) hirsutimana. Differences are fewer spines on the median carina, on the rostrum, and at the transverse suture of the outer uropod, as well as two groups of three spines just behind the cervical groove. Several species of axiid named Calastacus are referred to the genus Axiopsis in view of a strict definition of the former.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-187
Author(s):  
Lourdes Y. Echevarría ◽  
Pablo J. Venegas ◽  
Luis A. García-Ayachi ◽  
Pedro M. Sales Nunes

We describe a new species of Selvasaura from the montane forests of the eastern slopes of the Andes in northern Peru, based on external and hemipenial morphological characters and previous phylogenetic analyses. The new species can be differentiated from the other two Selvasaura species in having keeled dorsal scales usually flanked by longitudinal striations, in adults and juveniles; adult males with a yellow vertebral stripe bordered by broad dark brown stripes on each side and a unilobed hemipenis surrounded by the branches of the sulcus spermaticus. The description of the new species contributes information about new states of diagnostic characters of Selvasaura and natural history.


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