Emendation of Glyphobothrium and Glyphobothrium zwerneri (Tetraphyllidea) collected from Rhinoptera bonasus (Myliobatiformes: Myliobatidae) in Campeche, México, with details of the bothridial suckers

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Series: Occasional papers / Museum of Texas Tech University, number 336

By

Monks, Scott , author

Gardner, Scott Lyell, 1956- , author
Pulido-Flores, Griselda , author
Texas Tech University. Museum,
Texas Tech University. Natural Science Research Laboratory.

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Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Lubbock, TX, Museum of Texas Tech University, [2015]

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Caption title.

"Texas Tech University, Natural Science Research Laboratory."

"3 November 2015."

During a study of the helminth parasites of stingrays from the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula of México, four specimens of Glyphobothrium zwerneri were collected from Rhinoptera bonasus, Cownose Ray, off the Gulf of Mexico coast of Campeche, México and examined. The scolex of these worms and bothridia with an anterior sucker on each, a feature not reported in the original description but verified as present on type material. The discovery of this feature necessitated an emended diagnosis of the genus, an emendment of the description of the species, and establishment of the family Glyphobothriidae fam. nov. for Glyphobothrium and Duplicibothrium. The details of the anterior sucker and the scolex that are common to Glyphobothrium and Duplicibothrium and the possible relationship of Tiarabothrium and Echeneibothrium with Glyphobothrium and Duplicibothrium are presented.

Subjects

Mexico , Rhinoptera bonasus , Tapeworms , Tetraphyllidea

Call Number

AS36 .T4955 no.336

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 933913629
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q109807399