ZooKeys 93 I: | 1-20 (2020) A peer-reviewed open-access journal Cs Res ae Ee #ZooKeys https:/ / ZOO keys. pensoft.net Launched to accelerate biodiversity research A new species of Cosmocerca (Nematoda, Ascaridomorpha) from the marine toad Rhinella marina (Linnaeus) (Anura, Bufonidae) in Australia Xue-Feng Ni', Diane P. Barton*?, Hui-Xia Chen', Liang Li! | Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, 050024 Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China 2 School of Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia 3 School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Estella, New South Wales 2678, Australia Corresponding author: Liang Li (liangliangex369@126.com) Academic editor: H.-P. Fagerholm | Received 26 January 2020 | Accepted 9 March 2020 | Published 30 April 2020 http://zoobank. org/FA3 CF863-2E77-4CF2-99D6-6C6AB85557A8 Citation: Ni X-F, Barton DP, Chen H-X, Li L (2020) A new species of Cosmocerca (Nematoda, Ascaridomorpha) from the marine toad Rhinella marina (Linnaeus) (Anura, Bufonidae) in Australia. ZooKeys 931: 11-20. https://doi. org/10.3897/zookeys.93 1.50478 Abstract The marine toad Rhinella marina (Linnaeus) (Anura, Bufonidae) is a notorious, exotic amphibian species in Australia. However, our present knowledge of the composition of the nematode fauna of R. marina is still not complete. In the present study, a new cosmocercid nematode, Cosmocerca multipapillata sp. nov., was described using both light and scanning electron microscopy, based on specimens collected from R. marina in Australia. Cosmocerca multipapillata sp. nov. can be easily distinguished from its congeners by the body size, the presence of lateral alae and well sclerotized gubernaculum, the number and arrangement of plectanes and rosettes and the length of spicules, oesophagus and tail. Keywords parasite, nematode, Ascaridida, Cosmocercoidea, marine toad Rhinella marina, new species, Australasian Region Copyright Xue-Feng Ni et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. 12 Xue-Feng Ni et al. / ZooKeys 931: 11-20 (2020) Introduction The marine toad Rhinella marina (Linnaeus) (Anura, Bufonidae) is a large, terrestrial toad, which is natively distributed in Central and South America (Zug and Zug 1979; Lever 2001). The species has been widely introduced to the United States, Fiji, Philip- pines, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Japan, the Caribbean and some Pacific islands for controlling agricultural pests (Alford et al. 1995; Frost 2016). The helminth fauna of R. marina was studied by many authors and over 30 species of nematode parasites have been recorded from this host (Brenes and Bravo-Hollis 1959; Speare 1990; Goldberg and Bursey 1992; Barton 1996; Bursey et al. 2000; Kuzmin et al. 2007; Espinoza- Jimenez et al. 2007; Bursey and Brooks 2010; Drake et al. 2014). During a helminthological survey in Australian amphibians, some nematodes be- longing to the Cosmocercoidea Travassos, 1925 were collected from R. marina. Their examination using light and scanning electron microscopy revealed that these speci- mens represented a new species of Cosmocerca Diesing, 1861. Materials and methods Light and scanning electron microscopy Nematodes were collected from the intestine of the marine toad R. marina (Linnaeus) (Anura, Bufonidae) in various locations from Queensland, Australia. Specimens were fixed and stored in 70% ethanol until study. For light microscopy studies, nematodes were cleared in lactophenol. Drawings were made with the use of a Nikon microscope drawing attachment. For scanning electron microscopy (SEM), specimens were re- fixed in a 4% formaldehyde solution, post-fixed in 1% OsO4, dehydrated via an etha- nol series and acetone, and then critical point dried. Samples were coated with gold and examined using a Hitachi S-4800 scanning electron microscope at an accelerating voltage of 20 kV. Measurements (the range, followed by the mean in parentheses) are given in micrometers (um) unless otherwise stated. Type specimens were deposited in College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Hebei Province, China. Results Cosmocerca multipapillata sp. nov. http://zoobank.org/45496476-7E22-4A9 1-AOF5-E5CFFA7E9123 Figures 1-3 Description. Small-sized, whitish nematodes. Body cylindrical, maximum width at about region of mid-body. Cuticle with fine transverse striations. Excretory pore situ- ated slightly anterior to esophageal bulb (Figs 1A, B, 2C). Deirids not observed. So- matic papillae present (Figs 2D, E, 3A, C). Oral aperture simple, somewhat triangular, A new species of Cosmocerca 13 Goin sini a j 5 Se 50um Figure |. Cosmocerca multipapillata sp. nov. collected from the marine toad Rhinella marina (Linnaeus) (Anura: Bufonidae) in Australia. A anterior part of male, lateral view B anterior part of female, lateral view C region of vulva, lateral view D posterior end of male, lateral view E posterior end of female, lateral view F, G plectane H, I eggs J gubernaculum. surrounded by 3 small lips (Fig. 2B). Dorsal lip with one pair of large double cephalic papillae, subventral lips with single large double cephalic papilla and amphid (Fig. 2B). Oesophagus divided into anterior indistinct pharynx, cylindrical corpus and terminal posterior bulb with valves (Fig. 1A, B). Nerve ring located at about 1/2 of oesophageal length. Tail of both sexes conical, with pointed tip (Figs 1D, E, 2E). Male (based on 3 mature specimens): Body 3.10-3.55 (3.36) mm long; maximum width 248-327 (297). Oesophagus 365-479 (406) long (including bulb), representing 10.6-15.5 (12.2) % of body length; pharynx and corpus 288-385 (328) long, size of bulb 14 Xue-Feng Ni et al. / ZooKeys 931: 11-20 (2020) Figure 2. Scanning electron micrographs of female Cosmocerca multipapillata sp. nov collected from the marine toad Rhinella marina (Linnaeus) (Anura: Bufonidae) in Australia. A anterior part of body (lateral ala arrowed), ventrolateral view B cephalic end, apical view C magnified image of excretory pore D mag- nified image of somatic papilla E tail (lateral ala indicated by white arrow, somatic papilla indicated by black arrow), lateral view. Abbreviations: d, dorsal lip; v, ventrolateral lip. 65-94 (78.5) x 73-100 (83.3). Nerve ring 160-215 (196) and excretory pore 260-417 (323) from anterior extremity, respectively. Lateral alae narrow, extending from slightly posterior to cephalic end to level of third precloacal plectane (Fig. 2A). Posterior end of body distinctly ventrally curved (Figs 1D, 3A). Spicules alate, equal in length, 169-219 (185) long, distal end pointed (Figs 1D, 3C), representing 4.75-6.93 (5.53) % of body length. Gubernaculum small, well sclerotized, 125-146 (135) long (Fig. 1J). A total of 10-12 pairs of subventral precloacal plectanes and 3-4 pairs of precloacal rosettes present (Figs 1D, 3A). Each plectane consisting of a central papilla with two complete circles of 18—21 cuticular tubercles seated on underlying support of sclerotized segments (Figs 1F G, 3D). Usually 3 pairs of subventral paracloacal and 1-2 pairs of postcloacal rosettes pre- sent (Figs 1D, 3A—C). Some pairs of small, sub-ventral and simple papillae (indistinguish- able from somatic papillae) located at surface of postcloacal region (Fig. 3C). Tail 187-208 (201) long, representing 5.28-6.72 (6.03) % of body length (Fig. 1D). A new species of Cosmocerca 15 Figure 3. Scanning electron micrographs of male Cosmocerca multipapillata sp. nov. collected from the ma- rine toad Rhinella marina (Linnaeus) (Anura: Bufonidae) in Australia. A posterior end of body (lateral ala indicated by black arrow, plectanes indicated by white arrows, somatic papillae indicated by triangle), sub- lateral view B magnified image of paracloacal rosettes C tail (plectanes indicated by white arrows, somatic papillae indicated by triangle), sub-dorsal view D magnified image of plectane. Abbreviation: R, rosettes. Female (based on 10 mature specimens): Body 2.68-3.73 (3.23) mm long; maxi- mum width 188-277 (232). Oesophagus 338-428 (376) mm long (including bulb), representing 9.08-12.8 (11.7) % of body length; pharynx and corpus 273-343 (194) long, size of bulb 56-94 (81.3) x85-108 (97.3). Nerve ring 145-183 (164) and excre- tory pore 259-329 (281) from anterior extremity, respectively. Lateral alae extending from slightly posterior to cephalic end to level of about 1/2 length of tail. Vulval open- ing a transverse slit, vulval lips not protruded, 1.24-1.67 (1.45) mm from anterior extremity, at 41.6-53.4 (45.5) % of body length (Fig. 1C). Eggs oval, thin-walled with smooth surface, 66-108 (82.1) x 52-71 (61) (n = 20) (Fig. 1H, I). Tail 216-376 (292) long, representing 6.65-12.4 (9.42) % of body length (Fig. 1E). Taxonomic summary Type host. Marine toad Rhinella marina (Linnaeus) (Anura, Bufonidae). Type locality. Bloomfield (approximately 180 km north of Cairns), northern Queensland, Australia. 16 Xue-Feng Ni et al. / ZooKeys 931: 11-20 (2020) Other localities. Cape Tribulation, Port Douglas, Abergowrie, ‘Townsville region, all in northern Queensland, Australia. Site of infection. Rectum. Level of infection. 3.7% (24 out of 643) of Rhinella marina specimens were in- fected, with an intensity of 1-58 (mean 5.2) nematodes. Type deposition. Holotype, male (HBNU-—N-2019A024L); allotype, female (HBNU-N-2019A025L); paratypes: 2 males, 120 females (HBNU-—N-2019A026L). Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from a combination of the Latin words multi- (multiple) and papillata (bearing papillae), referring to the characteristic numer- ous pre-cloacal plectanes. Discussion Species of Cosmocerca (Ascaridida, Cosmocercoidea) mainly parasitize the diges- tive tract of various amphibians (Baker and Green 1988; Moravec and Barus 1990; Moravec and Kaiser 1994; Rizvi et al. 2011; Sou and Nandi 2015; Sou et al. 2018). Bursey et al. (2015) listed 29 nominal species in this genus. Later, Sou et al. (2018) described a new species, C. bengalensis Sou, Sow & Nandi, 2018 from India. To date, a total of 30 species of Cosmocerca have been reported worldwide. Among these species, only three have been recorded in the Australasian Region, namely C. archeyi Baker & Green, 1988 and C. australis Baker & Green, 1988, both from Leiopelma hochstetteri Fitzinger (Anura, Leiopelmatidae) in New Zealand, and C. limnodynastes Johnson & Simpson, 1942 from Limnodynastes dorsalis (Gray) (Anura, Myobatrachidae) in Aus- tralia Johnson and Simpson 1942; Baker and Green 1988; Bursey et al. 2015). Cosmocerca multipapillata sp. nov. can be easily distinguished from the three above-mentioned species by having males with many more plectanes (10-12 pairs in the new species vs only 4-5 pairs in the other three) and a distinctly longer tail in females (0.22-0.38 mm, representing 6.65-12.4% of body length in the new species vs 0.14-0.22 mm, representing 3.25-6.33% of body length in the other three species) (Johnson and Simpson 1942; Baker and Green 1988; Bursey et al. 2015). Johnson and Simpson (1942) described C. australiensis Johnson & Simpson, 1942 and C. propinqua Johnson & Simpson, 1942 both from L. dorsalis in Australia. Both of them should be treated as incertae sedis, because only female specimens were found. In fact, Inglis (1968) considered that C. australiensis and C. propinqua should be transferred to Parathelandros Baylis, 1930 (Oxyurida, Pharyngodonidae) based on the morphological characters of the female. Nevertheless, the new species differs from C. australiensis and C. propinqua by the distinctly smaller body size in the female (2.68-3.73 mm in C. multipapillata sp. nov. vs 5.0-9.0 mm in the other two species). In addition, the position of the vulva and the morphology of the female tail of C. multipapillata sp. nov. are also different from C. propinqua (vulva situated in front of oesophageal bulb in this species). Moreover, the new species has a relatively longer oesophagus than that of C. australiensis (oesophageal length representing 9.08-12.8% of body length in C. multipapillata vs representing 3.89-4.67% of body length in C. australiensis) (Baker and Green 1988). A new species of Cosmocerca 17 In the genus Cosmocerca, C. ishagi (Islam, Farooq & Khanum, 1979) and C. bra- siliensis Travassos, 1925 have 9 or more pairs of plectanes in males (Islam et al. 1979; Rizvi et al. 2011). Cosmocerca multipapillata sp. nov. is different from C. ishagi by having a well sclerotized gubernaculum (0.13-0.15 mm long), the presence of lateral alae (vs gubernaculum and lateral alae absent in C. ishaqi) and relatively longer spicules (spicules 0.17-0.22 mm long, representing 4.75-6.93% of body length vs spicules 0.10 mm long, representing 3.42% of body length) (Islam et al. 1979). Cosmocerca brasiliensis was de- scribed from Rhinella crucifer (Wied) (Anura, Bufonidae), /schnocnema guentheri (Stein- dachner) (Anura, Brachycephalidae), Thoropa miliaris (Spix) (Anura, Cycloramphidae) and Boana faber (Wied) (Anura, Hylidae) in Brazil (Travassos 1925, 1931). Dyer and Altig (1976) also reported this parasite in several species of frogs in Ecuador. Cosmocerca brasiliensis can be easily distinguished from the new species by having a much larger body size in females (9.0-12.7 mm long in the former vs 2.68-3.73 mm long in the latter), the absence of paracloacal rosettes and lateral alae (vs usually 3 pairs and presence of lateral alae in the new species), and a distinctly longer tail in females (0.53-0.74 mm long in C. brasiliensis vs 0.22-0.38 mm long in C. multipapillata sp. nov.). Although some previous studies reported the marine toad R. marina harboring nematodes belonging to Cosmocerca (Speare 1990; Barton 1997; Espinoza-Jimenez et al. 2007), most of these studies did not identify the parasites to species level. Prior to this study, only C. commutata (Diesing, 1851), C. podicipinus Baker & Vicente, 1984, C. brasiliensis and C. parva Travassos, 1925 had been recorded in R. marina (Skrjabin et al. 1961; Bursey et al. 2001; Bursey and Brooks 2010). However, C. commutata, C. par- va and C. podicipinus have only 4—7 pairs of precloacal plectanes (Skrjabin et al. 1961; Baker and Vicente 1984), which easily differentiates them from C. multipapillata sp. nov. (presence of 10-12 pairs of precloacal plectanes). The morphological differences between C. brasiliensis and C. multipapillata sp. nov. have been mentioned previously. Based on morphological characters of the new species (i.e., the body size, the number of plectanes and the presence of well developed spicules and gubernaculum), we specu- late that C. multipapillata sp. nov. could have been introduced to Australia along with its host Rk. marina, because all the recorded Cosmocerca species in the Australasian Region, including C. archeyi, C. australis and C. limnodynastes, have small body size (body length not over 2.00 mm in males), few plectanes (not over 5 pairs) and rudimental spicules and gubernaculum (Johnson and Simpson 1942; Baker and Green 1988; Bursey et al. 2015). However, some species of Cosmocerca found in the Neotropical Region have some common characters with the new species, for example, the body length of C. brasilien- sis, C. travasssosi Rodrigues & Fabio, 1970, C. cruzi Rodrigues & Fabio, 1970 and C. podicipinus is more or less 3.0 mm or over 3.0 mm in males; C. brasiliensis, C. uruguay- ensis Lent & Freitas, 1948 and C. vreibradici Bursey & Goldberg, 2004 all with many plectanes (7-9 pairs); C. brasiliensis, C. rara Freitas & Vicente, 1966 and C. vrcibradici with well developed spicules and/or gubernaculum (Lent and Freitas 1948; Freitas and Vicente 1966; Rodrigues and Fabio 1970; Bursey and Goldberg 2004). However, we need some more direct evidence to elucidate the origin of C. multipapillata sp. nov. in the Australasian Region or the Neotropical Region (i.e. if this new species is distributed in the Neotropical Region). Moreover, further studies on the composition of the Cosmocerca 18 Xue-Feng Ni et al. / ZooKeys 931: 11-20 (2020) nematode fauna of native Australasian amphibians and rigorous phylogenetic studies to determine the interspecific relationships of Cosmocerca using genetic data including broad representatives worldwide (especially species from the Australasian and Neotropi- cal Regions) are required to solve the evolutionary problem. Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to Dr. Frantisek Moravec (Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) and Professor Hideo Hasegawa (Facul- ty of Medicine, Oita University, Japan) for providing important literature. The authors are indebted to many people who collected toads for this study, especially Dr. D. Blair (James Cook University, Townsville, Australia), the late Dr. R. Speare (James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) and Dr. H. Spencer (Cape Tribulation). 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