Uvitellina simile Stossich 1902, n. comb.

• Main Authors: Dronen, Norman O., Blend, Charles K.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Platyhelminthes; Trematoda; Echinostomida; Cyclocoelidae; Uvitellina; Uvitellina simile; Vanellus vanellus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6109033; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/317187CDFFC0773EBEB0A0DA9BD48CD5

U . simile (Stossich, 1902) n. comb. Syn. U . magniembria Witenberg, 1923 Type host. “ Himantopus atropterus ” as spelled by Yamaguti (1971) (As far as we can determine this is not a valid species. There are two species of Himantopus world wide: the black-winged or common stilt, Himantopus himantopus [Linnaeus], and the black-necked stilt, H . mexicanus [Müller] [Charadriiformes: Recurvirostridae], and only H . himantopus would likely be present in Egypt or the Russian Federation). Type locality. Cairo, Egypt. Additional hosts. Northern lapwing, Vanellus vanellus (Linnaeus) (Charadriiformes: Charadriidae)— Witenberg (1923); “Stilt”, Himantopus candidus (Bonnaterre) (Not a valid bird species – see above)— Chertkova et al . (1994). Additional localities. Alexandria, Egypt; Russian Federation; Turkestan; Volga Delta—Witenberg (1923); USSR (CIS)— Chertkova et al . (1994). Previously proposed synonyms. Cyclocoelum similis (Stossich, 1902) — Joyeux & Baer (1927); Haematotrephus consimilis Nicoll, 1914 — Bashkirova (1950). Remarks. The original description of this species as Haematotrephus similis Stossich, 1902 by Stossich (1902) was minimal providing only a length and width measurement (8,000 by 2,000). Kossack (1911) provided some additional information on this species based on specimens in the Berlin Museum (No. 2309) that were labeled as “ Monostomum mutabile Zeder ” that he felt represented this species. Uvitellina simile n. comb. was considered to be a synonym of Haematotrephus lanceolatum (Wedl, 1858) by Dubois (1959) and Macko & Feige (1960) and of Cyclocoelum ( H .) vanelli (Rudolphi, 1819) (= Uvitellina vanelli [Rudolphi, 1819]) by Dubois (1965). This species has a pretesticular ovary that forms a triangle with the testes (Haematotrephinae), a postpharyngeal genital pore and the vitelline fields are confluent posteriorly, placing it in Uvitellina . Uvitellina magniembria is virtually identical to this species and is synonymized with it herein. In addition to the measurements, U . magniembria is like ...