Selfcoelum mertensis Gupta 1970, n. comb. ...

• Main Authors: Dronen, Norman O., Blend, Charles K.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Platyhelminthes; Trematoda; Echinostomida; Cyclocoelidae; Selfcoelum; Selfcoelum mertensis; Actitis hypoleucos; Common Sandpiper
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6109225; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6109225

S. mertensis (Gupta, 1970) n. comb. Type host. Common sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos (Linnaeus) (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae). Type locality. Merta, Nagaur District, Rajasthan, India. Remarks. This species was originally described as Ophthalmophagus mertensis Gupta, 1970. On the one hand, the position of the posttesticular ovary may have been confused with the “receptaculum seminis uterinum”, as shown in Fig. 3 of the original description and may be more posteriorly situated nearer to the posterior arch of the cyclocoel, which is more typically the case in members of this genus. On the other hand, the “receptaculum seminis uterinum” may be the posterior testis and the anterior testis which is shown as being situated near the midbody may be part of the uterus. If the second situation is true, then this species would have an intertesticular ovary froming a triangle with the diagonal testes and would be assigned to Cyclocoelinae. However, the species was described from a single damaged specimen and it appears ... : 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 87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237117 ...