Biology:Spinitectoides

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Spinitectoides
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Rhabditida
Family: Cystidicolidae
Genus: Spinitectoides
Petter, 1969
Species:
S. berlandi
Binomial name
Spinitectoides berlandi
Petter, 1969

Spinitectoides is a genus of parasitic nematodes, belonging to the family Cystidicolidae. Species of Spinitectoides are parasitic as adults in the gastrointestinal tract of fish.[1][2][3] According to the World Register of Marine Species, the genus currently (2019) includes a single species, Spinitectoides berlandi.[2]

Description

The genus Spinitectoides is known only from larvae and females; its main characteristics are "a festooned cuticular ornament on the anterior part of body and an apical structure closely similar to this of Cystidicola".[1]

Spinitectoides berlandi was described on the basis of one larva from Trisopterus luscus and three adult females from Molva molva. No males were found.[1] The description also mentions that females from Molva molva had been previously described by Berland under the name "Spinitectus sp.".[4]

Etymology

The etymology is not clearly explained in the original description[1] but it is obvious that the name of the genus refers to Spinitectus, another genus of Cystidicolidae. The specific epithet berlandi obviously refers to Bjørn Berland,[1] a Norwegian parasitologist who described similar specimens in 1961.[4]

Hosts and localities

The common ling, Molva molva is the host of Spinitectoides berlandi

Spinitectoides berlandi is a parasite of marine fish, including pouting, Trisopterus luscus (Gadidae) and common ling, Molva molva (Lotidae). The type-locality is the Atlantic Ocean off the France coast. [1] Other localities include off the Norway coast [4] and off Faroe Islands.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Petter, Annie J. (1969). "Enquête sur les Nématodes des Poissons de la région nantaise. Identification des larves d'Ascarides parasitant les Sardines (en rapport avec les granulomes éosinophiles observés chez l'homme dans la région)". Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée 44 (5): 559–579. doi:10.1051/parasite/1969445559. ISSN 0003-4150.  open access
  2. 2.0 2.1 Bezerra, T.N.; Decraemer, W.; Eisendle-Flöckner, U.; Hodda, M.; Holovachov, O.; Leduc, D.; Miljutin, D.; Mokievsky, V.; Peña Santiago, R.; Sharma, J.; Smol, N.; Tchesunov, A.; Venekey, V.; Zeng, Z.; Vanreusel, A. (2019). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. SpinitectoidesPetter, 1969. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22934 on 2019-01-06
  3. Moravec, Frantisek (2007). "Some aspects of the taxonomy and biology of adult spirurine nematodes parasitic in fishes: a review". Folia Parasitologica 54 (4): 239–257. doi:10.14411/fp.2007.033. ISSN 0015-5683. PMID 18303766.  open access
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Berland, Bjørn (1961). "Nematodes from some Norwegian marine fishes". Sarsia 2 (1): 1–50. doi:10.1080/00364827.1961.10410245. ISSN 0036-4827.  (Subscription content?)
  5. Marianne, Køie (1993). "Nematode parasites in teleosts from 0 to 1540 m depth off the Faroe Islands (The North Atlantic)". Ophelia 38 (3): 217–243. doi:10.1080/00785326.1993.10429897. ISSN 0078-5326.  (Subscription content?)

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