Redescription of the genus Afrodiplozoon Khotenovski, 1981 and its only known species Afrodiplozoon polycotyleus (Paperna, 1973) (Monogenea: Diplozoidae) using a combined multidisciplinary approach

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Authors	PŘIKRYLOVÁ Iva MAŠOVÁ Šárka GELNAR Milan MALTA Moses M. TAVAKOL Sareh LUUS-POWELL Wilmien J.
Year of publication	2018
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Parasitology International
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Web	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.parint.2017.11.008
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.parint.2017.11.008
Keywords	Afrodiplozoon; Cyprinidae; South Africa; ITS2 rDNA; SEM
Description	The present study redescribes the monotypic genus Afrodiplozoon Khotenovski, 1981, a diplozooid parasite endemic to Africa, based on material collected during surveys carried out in the Limpopo Province, South Africa, from two cyprinid hosts Labeobarbus marequensis and Enteromius paludinosus. Morphometrical analysis of the composition of internal organs and attachment clamps, using light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy, provided details for the genus and species redescriptions. Posterior attachment apparatus can bear up the 15 pairs of the clamps with the first pair of clamps distinctly smaller and not fully developed. Molecular characterization of the second internal transcribed spacer (ITS2) rDNA and phylogenetic analysis revealed the position of Afrodiplozoon polycotyleus as a sister taxon to Paradiplozoon krugerense and Paradiplozoon bingolenisis, distant from other African representatives of the genus Paradiplozoon, Paradiplozoon vaaleense and Paradiplozoon ichtyoxanthon.
Related projects:	ECIP - Evropské centrum ichtyoparazitologie