Bothriocephalus claviceps (Goeze, 1782) Rudolphi 1810
Description
Bothriocephalus claviceps (Goeze, 1782) Rudolphi, 1810
Type locality: Unknown (? Germany).
Distribution in Africa: Nile basin – Egypt.
Type material: Not known to exist.
Material studied: Bothriocephalus claviceps ex Anguilla sp. from Egypt (BMNH 1932.5.31.780–780).
References: Meggitt (1930); Tadros (1967).
Remarks: Meggitt (1930) identified immature fragments of tapeworms from unidentified eels [most probably Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus), the only eel occurring in the region], allegedly found by A. Looss in Egypt, as B. claviceps. Examination of the vouchers confirmed this identification. Bothriocephalus claviceps is a specific parasite of eels in the Holarctic Region (Scholz et al. 2004) and its occurrence in Africa represents the southernmost range of its distribution area, apparently related to occasional migration of eels to the rivers in North Africa including the lower Nile. Based on the distribution of A. anguilla, it is possible that future studies will reveal the presence of B. claviceps also in Maghreb ichthyofaunistic province, which has Palaearctic affinities and includes Morocco, northern Algeria and Tunisia 1. Since the distribution of this Holarctic tapeworm in Africa is restricted to lower Nile and possibly Maghreb province, it is not included into the key below.
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3309.1.1 (DOI)
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- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB3EF7B0A26FFA7FFEA71340779FFF0 (URL)
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Bothriocephalidae
- Genus
- Bothriocephalus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Bothriocephalidea
- Phylum
- Platyhelminthes
- Scientific name authorship
- (Goeze, 1782) Rudolphi
- Species
- claviceps
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bothriocephalus claviceps (Goeze, 1810 sec. Kuchta, Burianová, Jirkú, Chambrier, Oros, Brabec & Scholz, 2012
References
- Goeze, J. A. E. (1782) Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Eingeweidewurmer thierischer Korper. Blankenburg, 471 pp.
- Meggitt, F. J. (1930) Report on a collection of cestodes mainly from Egypt. IV. Conclusion. Parasitology, 22, 338 - 345.
- Tadros, G. (1967) On a new cestode Bothriocephalus prudhoei sp. nov. from the Nile catfish Clarias anguillaris with some remarks on the genus Clestobothrium June [sic], 1899. Bulletin of the Zoological Society of Egypt, 21, 74 - 88.
- Scholz, T., Skerikova, A., Shimazu, T. & Grygier, M. J. (2004) A taxonomic study of species of Bothriocephalus Rudolphi, 1808 (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea) from eels in Japan: morphological and molecular evidence for the occurrence of B. claviceps (Goeze, 1782) and confirmation of the validity of B. japonicus Yamaguti, 1934. Systematic Parasitology, 57, 87 - 96.