Echeneibothriidae

• Main Authors: Ruhnke, Timothy R., Caira, Janine N., Cox, Allison
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Platyhelminthes; Cestoda; Rhinebothriidea; Echeneibothriidae; Greenland; New Zealand; Bray; Gronland; Beneden; Van Beneden
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6113007; https://zenodo.org/record/6113007

Echeneibothriidae de Beauchamp, 1905 Diagnosis. Scolex with 4 bothridia; bothridia with, or occasionally without, facial loculi; apical sucker and conspicuous anterior/posterior orientation of bothridia lacking; myzorhynchus present in adult stage. Postvaginal testes usually lacking. Vitelline follicles not interrupted by ovary. Parasites of Rajiformes (sensu Naylor et al . 2012 a). Type genus: Echeneibothrium van Beneden, 1850. Additional genera: Clydonobothrium Euzet, 1959, Notomegarhynchus Ivanov & Campbell, 2002, Phormobothrium Alexander, 1963, Pseudanthobothrium Baer, 1956, Tritaphros Lönnberg, 1889. Remarks. Echeneibothriidae was originally established as a family-group name by de Beauchamp (1905) who recognized it as a tribe in the family “Phyllobothridés” [sic, pg. 499] and in essence characterized it as having “bothridies allongées, subdivisées par des crêtes musculaires en areoles quadrangulaires qui les ont fait comparer au disque céphalique du Remora, jamais de ventouse acessoire, myzorhynchus parfois très développé.” It was formally treated as a family by Riser (1955; pg. 281) who characterized it as follows: “Phyllidia pedicellate, elongate, oval, with bothridial surface muscular and divided by temporary ridges into loculi.” Euzet (1994) expanded the diagnosis to include the absence of postvaginal testes, and also to include genera such as Pseudanthobothrium , which lack facial loculi, but he considered the Echeneibothriinae as a subfamily of the Tetraphyllidea. The diagnosis presented here follows Euzet (1994). The persistence of a myzorhynchus in the adult stage distinguishes this family from the other three families in the order. : Published as part of Ruhnke, Timothy R., Caira, Janine N. & Cox, Allison, 2015, The cestode order Rhinebothriidea no longer family-less: A molecular phylogenetic investigation with erection of two new families and description of eight new species of Anthocephalum, pp. 51-81 in Zootaxa 3904 (1) on page 76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3904.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/287633 : {"references": ["de Beauchamp, P. M. (1905) Etudes sur les cestodes des selaciens. Archives de Parasitologie, 9, 463 - 539.", "Naylor, G., Caira, J. N., Jensen, K., Rosana, K. A., Straube, N. & Lakner, C. (2012 a) Elasmobranch phylogeny: a mitochondrial estimate based on 595 species. In: Carrier, J. C., Musick, J. A. & Heithaus, M. R. (Eds.), Biology of Sharks and their Relatives. CRC Press, Boca Raton. pp. 31 - 56.", "Euzet, L. (1959) Recherches sur les cestodes tetraphyllides des selaciens des cotes de France. Doctoral Dissertation, Universite de Montpellier, Montpellier, 263 pp.", "Ivanov, V. A. & Campbell, R. A. (2002) Notomegarhynchus navonae n. gen. and n. sp. (Eucestoda: Tetraphyllidea), from skates (Rajidae: Arhychobatinae) in the Southern Hemisphere. Journal of Parasitology, 88, 340 - 349. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 3285586", "Alexander, C. G. (1963) Tetraphyllidean and diphyllidean cestodes of New Zealand selachians. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 3, 117 - 142.", "Baer, J. G. (1956) Parasitic helminths collected in west Greenland. Meddelelser om Gronland Udgivne af Kommissionen for Videnskabelige Undersogelser i Gronland, 124, 5 - 55.", "Lonnberg, E. (1889) Bidrag till kannedomen om i Sverige forekommande cestoder. Bihang till Kongliga Svanska Vetenskaps- Akademiens Handlingar, 14, 1 - 69.", "Riser, N. W. (1955) Studies on cestode parasites of sharks and skates. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science, 30, 265 - 311.", "Euzet, L. (1994) Order Tetraphyllidea Carus, 1863. In: Khalil, L. F., Jones, A. & Bray, R. A. (Eds.), Keys to the Cestode Parasites of Vertebrates. CAB International, Wallingford, England, pp. 149 - 194."]}