Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-2014
Department
Coastal Sciences, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
Abstract
The plagioporine opecoelids Helicometra fasciata (Rudolphi, 1819) Odhner, 1902, and Macvicaria crassigula (Linton, 1910) Bartoli, Bray, and Gibson, 1989 have been reported from fishes in expansive geographic regions, disjointed from their type localities. New material of M. crassigula was collected from near its type locality as well as specimens resembling Helicometra fasciata sensu lato from three triglids in the Gulf of Mexico. Comparisons of the ribosomal DNA (rDNA) sequences, comprising the partial 18S rDNA, internal transcribed spacer region (= ITS1, 5.8S, and ITS2), and partial 28S rDNA gene, from M. crassigula and Helicometra fasciata sensu lato in the Gulf of Mexico were made with sequences deposited in GenBank from those species from the Mediterranean Sea. Results reveal that M. crassigula sensu stricto from the Gulf of Mexico is distinct from the two cryptic species of M. crassigula sensu lato from the Mediterranean Sea and Helicometra fasciata sensu lato in this study differs from H. fasciata sequences from the Mediterranean Sea, thus Helicometra manteri sp. nov. is described.
Publication Title
Acta Parasitologica
Volume
59
Issue
3
First Page
405
Last Page
412
Recommended Citation
Andres, M. J.,
Ray, C. L.,
Pulis, E. E.,
Curran, S. S.,
Overstreet, R. M.
(2014). Molecular Characterization of Two Opecoelid Trematodes From Fishes in the Gulf of Mexico, With a Desceiption of a New Species of Helicometra. Acta Parasitologica, 59(3), 405-412.
Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/16153
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