Anoplocephaloides dentata

• Main Authors: Haukisalmi, Voitto, Henttonen, Heikki, Hardman, Lotta, Hardman, Michael, Laakkonen, Juha, Murueva, Galina, Niemimaa, Jukka, Shulunov, Stanislav, Vapalahti, Olli
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Platyhelminthes; Cestoda; Cyclophyllidea; Anoplocephalidae; Anoplocephaloides; Anoplocephaloides dentata; Alaska; Beringia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3792444; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/E06987C7FFEF1B74FF2FFB85FC5A9F28

Anoplocephaloides cf. dentata (Galli-Valerio, 1905) The names Paranoplocephala dentata (Galli-Valerio, 1905), Anoplocephaloides dentata (Galli-Valerio, 1905) and Paranoplocephala brevis Kirshenblat, 1938 have been variously used for small, wedge-shaped cestodes parasitizing voles of the genera Microtus and Chionomys Miller (and occasionally other hosts) in the Palaearctic region. The position of A. dentata within the genus Anoplocephaloides Baer, 1923, as suggested by Rausch (1976), has been generally accepted. Following Spasskii (1951), P. brevis has been consistently regarded as a junior synonym of A. dentata . Thus, all A. dentata -like cestodes in the Palaearctic voles have been considered a single species, with the exception of Anoplocephaloides dentatoides Sato, Kamiya, Tenora & Kamiya, 1993 from Myodes rufocanus from Hokkaido, Japan (see Sato et al. 1993). A recent molecular phylogenetic analysis (Haukisalmi et al. 2009) suggested that A. dentata -like cestodes include at least five species (plus A. dentatoides ) in the Holarctic region: four species in western Eurasia and one in the rest of Eurasia and Beringia (north-eastern Siberia and Alaska). Based on the cytochrome oxidase I (mtDNA) sequences, the A. dentata -like cestodes from Buryatia (hosts Myodes rufocanus and Microtus fortis ) group strongly, and are therefore conspecific, with the Holarctic species (Haukisalmi et al. 2009). However, it is not yet known if this Holarctic species is conspecific with either of the two related species described in North America, i.e. Anoplocephaloides infrequens (Douthitt, 1915) and A. troeschi (Rausch, 1946) from Geomys bursarius (Shaw) (Geomyidae) and Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord), respectively. In the Palaearctic, A. dentata -like cestodes are characteristically parasites of voles of the genera Microtus and Chionomys . However, in addition to Microtus gregalis (Pallas), M. maximowiczii and M. oeconomus , Machul’skii (1958) and Zhaltsanova (1992) reported P. brevis or P. dentata from Myodes rufocanus , M. ...