Neotropical Monogenoidea 62. Biotodomella mirospinata gen. nov., sp. nov. (Polyonchoinea: Dactylogyridae): a parasite of the gills of Biotodoma cupido (Cichliformes: Cichlidae), from the Peruvian Amazon

By

Murrieta Morey, Germán Augusto
Vásquez Arimuya, Mariana
Boeger, Walter A.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019-11-26

Original Publication

Nature conservation

Volume

36

Pages

1--5

Subjects

Biotodoma , Cichlidae , Dactylogyridae , Monogenoidea , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2012-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zoologia.36.e38455

 

Abstract

Biotodomellagen. nov. (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae) is proposed to accommodate Biotodomella mirospinatasp. nov., found on the gills of Biotodoma cupido (Heckel, 1840) (“cara bonita” or “green-streaked eartheater”), a freshwater cichlid from the Peruvian Amazon. The new genus and species differ from other Neotropical dactylogyrids in having the hooks of each hook pair well-differentiated from the remaining pairs, shafts varying in robustness, weakly sclerotized expansions at the proximal end of shaft, and a dorsal anchor with grooved shaft, bifid point. This study represents the first record of a monogenoid from a species of Biotodoma Eigenmann & Kennedy, 1903.