Nematodes from the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii (Boitard)), with the description of Sarcophiloxyuris longus n. gen. and n. sp. (Oxyuridae)

2021 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.P. Barton ◽  
L. Smales ◽  
V. Lee ◽  
X. Zhu ◽  
S. Shamsi
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Conservation Management ◽  
Accessory Piece ◽  
Tasmanian Devil ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Separate Species ◽  
Large Pair ◽  
Molecular Sequencing ◽  
Carnivorous Marsupial ◽  
Sarcophilus Harrisii

Abstract The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii (Boitard)) is an endangered carnivorous marsupial, limited to the islands of Tasmania in southern Australia. The parasites of the Tasmanian devil are understudied. This study aimed to increase the knowledge of the nematode fauna of Tasmanian devils. Ten Tasmanian devils were examined for parasites from northern and southern Tasmania. Nematodes that were collected were morphologically characterized as two separate species. Molecular sequencing was undertaken to verify the identity of these species. A new genus and species of oxyurid nematode was collected from a single Tasmanian devil from the northern part of Tasmania. The nematode is differentiated from oxyurids described from other Australian amphibians, reptiles and marsupials by the characters of the male posterior end – that is, in having three pairs of caudal papillae, two pairs peri-cloacal, one large pair post-cloacal, a long tapering tail, a stout spicule and a gubernaculum and accessory piece, as well as its much larger overall size. Molecular sequencing was unsuccessful. The remaining nematodes collected from the Tasmanian devil in this study were all identified as Baylisascaris tasmaniensis Sprent, 1970, through morphology and molecular sequencing. This paper presents the first description of a new genus and species of oxyurid nematode from the Tasmanian devil, Sarcophiloxyuris longus n. gen., n. sp. The need to undertake more sampling of the parasites of endangered hosts, such as the Tasmanian devil, to assist with a better understanding of their conservation management, is discussed.

scholarly journals Apedunculata discoidea gen. n., sp. n. (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) parasitic on Prochilodus lineatus (Valenciennes, 1837) (Characiformes: Prochilodontidae) from southeastern Brazil

2009 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 895-898 ◽  
Author(s):  
AM. Cuglianna ◽  
NS. Cordeiro ◽  
JL. Luque
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Freshwater Fish ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Accessory Piece ◽  
Copulatory Organ ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Prochilodus Lineatus ◽  
Copulatory Complex ◽  
A New Species

A new species of dactylogyrid monogenean, Apedunculata discoidea gen. n., sp. n. is described and illustrated from the gills of the freshwater fish Prochilodus lineatus (Valenciennes, 1837) in pisciculture ponds from Pirassununga, São Paulo, Brazil. Diagnostic characters of the new genus and species are: 1) vagina dextrolateral slightly sclerotised, opening anteriorly at level of copulatory complex; 2) copulatory organ coiled with two counterclockwise rings; 3) Accessory piece distal and not articulated; 4) body disk-shaped, lacking a peduncle.

scholarly journals Thiohalomonas denitrificans gen. nov., sp. nov. and Thiohalomonas nitratireducens sp. nov., novel obligately chemolithoautotrophic, moderately halophilic, thiodenitrifying Gammaproteobacteria from hypersaline habitats

2007 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 1582-1589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitry Yu. Sorokin ◽  
Tatjana P. Tourova ◽  
Gesche Braker ◽  
Gerard Muyzer
Keyword(s):  
Electron Donor ◽  
Type Strain ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Sulfide Oxidation ◽  
Solar Saltern ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Separate Species ◽  
Single Strain ◽  
Moderately Halophilic ◽  
Sulfur Oxidizing

A novel group of moderately halophilic, obligately chemolithoautotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing Gammaproteobacteria was found in sediments of various inland hypersaline lakes and a solar saltern. These bacteria were enriched and isolated with thiosulfate as electron donor and nitrate as electron acceptor at 2 M NaCl. Ten isolates (HLD strains) were long non-motile rods. They grew anaerobically as complete denitrifiers, and aerobically under micro-oxic conditions. Sulfate was the final product of thiosulfate and sulfide oxidation, and nitrite and N2O were intermediates of nitrate reduction to N2. The HLD strains grew optimally at pH 7.3–7.8, and at NaCl concentrations of 1.5–2.0 M. On the basis of phenotypic and genetic analysis, the moderately halophilic, thiodenitrifying isolates are proposed to be assigned to a new genus and species, Thiohalomonas denitrificans gen. nov., sp. nov. The type strain is HLD 2T (=DSM 15841T=UNIQEM U222T ). A single strain, HRhD 3spT, with vibrio-shaped cells, was obtained from a co-culture capable of complete denitrification of nitrate in the presence of either thiocyanate or thiosulfate as electron donor. It grew anaerobically with thiosulfate, reducing nitrate to nitrite, or under micro-oxic conditions at 1.0–2.5 M NaCl with an optimum at 1.0 M. Strain HRhD 3spT was genetically related to the HLD strains at the level of a separate species and is described as Thiohalomonas nitratireducens sp. nov. The type strain is HRhD 3spT (=DSM 16925T=UNIQEM U248T).

New genus and species of subfamily Trinodinae (Coleoptera, Polyphaga, Dermestidae) from Lowermost Eocene French amber

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-69
Author(s):  
A.G. Kirejtshuk ◽  
J. Háva ◽  
A. Nel
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Short Review ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
New Tribe ◽  
Fossil Records

In the paper six new species of the genus Oisenodes gen. nov. (Dermestidae, Trinodinae, Trinodini) are described: O. azari sp. nov., O. clavatus sp. nov., O. gallicus sp. nov., O. metepisternalis sp. nov., O. oisensis sp. nov. and O. transversus sp. nov. A new tribe Trinoparvini Hava, trib. nov. is established for the recent genus Trinoparvus Háva, 2004. Short review of known fossil records of the subfamily Trinodinae is given.

A new genus and two new species of Tarsonemidae (Acari: Heterostigmata) associated with bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) from Peru

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4966 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-53
Author(s):  
ALEXANDER A. KHAUSTOV ◽  
ALEXANDER V. PETROV ◽  
VASILIY B. KOLESNIKOV
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Bark Beetles ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
A New Species

A new genus and species, Unguitarsonemus paradoxus n. gen., n. sp. and a new species, Pseudotarsonemoides peruviensis n. sp. (Acari: Trombidiformes: Tarsonemidae), are described based on phoretic females collected on bark beetles Phloeotribus pilula and Ph. biguttatus, respectively, from Peru. A key to species of the genus Pseudotarsonemoides is provided. 

Spiracarneyella, a new carneyellid edrioasteroid from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) of Kentucky and Ohio and comments on carneyellid heterochrony

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Colin D. Sumrall ◽  
Daniel Phelps
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Upper Ordovician ◽  
The Right ◽  
Oral Area

Abstract A new genus and species of carneyellid edrioasteroid, Spiracarneyella florencei n. gen. n. sp., is described from the Upper Ordovician (Kaitian) Point Pleasant Formation of northern Kentucky and southern Ohio. Spiracarneyella n. gen. is characterized by having all five ambulacra curving clockwise around the theca, having small node-bearing interambulacral plates in the distal interambulacra, and having the periproct placement slightly offset to the right side of the CD interambulacrum. The oral area of carneyellids evolved by paedomorphosis of the oral plates covering the mouth. The straight ambulacra of Cryptogoleus and the spiraling ambulacra of Spiracarneyella n. gen. evolved by paedomorphosis and peramorphosis, respectively. UUID: http://zoobank.org/79733c8f-0bc8-4e7e-8f77-8508f576755c

Early Devonian brachiopods from Satun Province, southern Thailand

1999 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 850-859 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Boucot ◽  
L. R. M. Cocks ◽  
P. R. Racheboeuf
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Benthic Assemblages ◽  
Early Devonian ◽  
Old World ◽  
Southern Thailand ◽  
Biogeographical Region

Twelve brachiopod taxa are described from the Early Devonian (probable early Emsian) Pa Samed Formation of southern Thailand, including the new genus and species Quasiprosserella samedensis (Ambocoeliidae?) and the new species Plectodonta forteyi, Caplinoplia thailandensis, and Clorinda wongwanichi. They are the first undoubted Devonian brachiopods from Thailand. They represent the deeper-water Benthic Assemblages BA4-5, and, although clearly indicative of the Old World Realm, cannot be assigned to a particular biogeographical region. A new undescribed fauna from the contemporary Zebingyi Formation of Burma (Myanmar) is also noted.

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