Myzophyllobothrium rubrum , Shipley and Hornell 1906
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and the Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Ave., Lawrence, KS 66045, USA. & jensen @ ku. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0294 - 8471
- 2. Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and the Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Ave., Lawrence, KS 66045, USA. & iampen @ ku. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4409 - 8156
- 3. Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 N. Eagleville Rd., Storrs, CT 06269 - 3043, USA. janine. caira @ uconn. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9597 - 6978
Description
(Fig. 4A)
Type and only known host: Whitespotted eagle ray, Aetobatus ocellatus (as Aetobatis [sic] narinari) (Myliobatiformes: Aetobatidae).
Type locality: Puttalam Lake, Sri Lanka (as Ceylon).
Additional localities: None.
Site of infection: Spiral intestine.
Specimens examined: BMNH nos. 2006.7.14.1–3, three slides identified by Southwell (1925) as Myzophyllobothrium rubrum (see Jensen and Caira 2006).
Sequence data: None.
Remarks. Joyeux and Baer (1961) resolved the issue surrounding the two different interpretations of the scolex of this species presented by Shipley and Hornell (1906). In their figure of the scolex of one of the co-types of the species, Joyeux and Baer (1961; fig. 290) illustrated the anterior region of the scolex to clearly consist of four biloculate bothridia rather than four simple suckers. Unfortunately, we have been unable to locate the co-types of this species. The specimens of M. rubrum on the three slides examined here were reported by Southwell (1925) as having been collected from the type host and locality. Unfortunately, all of these specimens are in relatively poor condition, and include only one scolex. We did not consider this material to be of sufficient quality to allow re-description of this species. Nonetheless, given the paucity of information available on the proglottid anatomy of M. rubrum, a photograph of the posterior region of a mature proglottid of one of these specimens is presented in Fig. 4A.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- , Shipley and Hornell
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Platyhelminthes
- Order
- Tetraphyllidea
- Family
- Phyllobothriidae
- Genus
- Myzophyllobothrium
- Species
- rubrum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myzophyllobothrium rubrum , 1906 sec. Jensen, Pen & Caira, 2021
References
- Shipley, A. E. & Hornell, J. (1906) Report on the cestode and nematode parasites from the marine fishes of Ceylon. Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar (Herdman), Part V, 43 - 96.
- Southwell, T. (1925) A monograph on the Tetraphyllidea with notes on related cestodes. Memoirs of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, New Series, 2, 1 - 368.
- Jensen, K. & Caira, J. N. (2006) The status of Rhoptrobothrium Shipley et Hornell, 1906 (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea), with redescription of the type species, R. myliobatidis, and description of three new species from two species of Aetomylaeus (Myliobatiformes: Myliobatidae) from Malaysian Borneo. Folia Parasitologica, 53, 189 - 207. https: // doi. org / 10.14411 / fp. 2006.025
- Joyeux, C. & Baer, J. G. (1961) Classe de Cestodes. Cestoidea Rudolphi. In: Baer, J. - G., de Beauchamp, P., Caullery, M., Euzet, L., Gontcharoff, M., Grass, P. - P. & Joyeux, C. (Eds.), Trait de Zoologie. Anatomie, systematique, biologie. Tome IV. Plathelminthes, Mesozoaires, Acanthocephales, Nemertiens. Masson et Cie, Paris, pp. 347 - 560.