Cyclocoelum mehrotrai Sinha & Sahay 1975 ...

• Main Authors: Dronen, Norman O., Blend, Charles K.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Platyhelminthes; Trematoda; Plagiorchiida; Cyclocoelidae; Cyclocoelum; Cyclocoelum mehrotrai; Sinha; Actitis hypoleucos; Common Sandpiper
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6108913; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6108913

C. mehrotrai Sinha & Sahay, 1975 Syn. C. mathuri Jain, 1984 Type host. Common greenshank, Tringa nebularia (Gunnerus) (Syn. Glottis nebularia Gunnerus) (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae). Type locality. Patna, Bihar, India. Additional host. Common sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos (Linnaeus) (Syn. Tringa hypoleucos Linnaeus) (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae)— Jain (1984). Additional locality. Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India—Jain (1984). Remarks. Cyclocoelum mathuri Jain, 1984 was originally described from two specimens from Actitis hypoleucos collected in the Agra District of India; however, C. mathuri cannot be distinguished from Cyclocoelum mehrotrai Sinha & Sahay, 1975 and is synonymized herein with the latter. Cyclocoelum mehrotrai is larger than C. mathuri (38,000–38,200 compared to 21,800), and although C. mehrotrai has a somewhat smaller cirrus sac (600, 2% of body length compared to 700, 3%) and a shorter posttesticular space (542–767, 1–2% of body length compared to about 850, 4%), the similar percentages ... : Published as part of Dronen, Norman O. & Blend, Charles K., 2015, Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 4053 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117 ...