Cucullanus bulbosus

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Cucullanus bulbosus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Rhabditida
Family: Cucullanidae
Genus: Cucullanus
Species:
C. bulbosus
Binomial name
Cucullanus bulbosus
(Lane, 1916) Barreto, 1918
Synonyms

Bulbodacnitis bulbosa Lane, 1916

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Cucullanus bulbosus, scanning electron microscopy

Cucullanus bulbosus is a species of parasitic nematodes. [1] [2] It is an endoparasite of carangid fishes.

In 1916, Lane [1] described a new cucullanid species, Bulbodacnitis bulbosa, from the bluefin trevally Caranx melampygus off Sri Lanka and established the new genus Bulbodacnitis to accommodate it, because he considered the presence of a dorsal hemispherical cephalic elevation in this species to be of generic importance. However, Barreto [2] considered Bulbodacnitis Lane, 1916 a junior synonym of Cucullanus O.F. Müller, 1777, to which he transferred Lane’s species.

Cucullanus bulbosus had not been recorded since its description by Lane in 1916, but it was found again only in 2016, one century after, from specimens collected in Carangoides fulvoguttatus off New Caledonia. [3] The 2016 study included the first scanning electron microscopy examination and confirmed some previously reported morphological features in this species, showed some new characters (presence of circumoral spines and ventral oblique muscle bands in the male) and provided observations of the cephalic structures and male caudal papillae. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Lane, M. O. (1916). The genus Dacnitis Dujardin, 1845. Ind. J. med. Res. 93-104.
  2. 1 2 de Barreto, BAL. 1922. Revisão da familia Cucullanidae Barreto, 1916. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 14, 68–87. PDF Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  3. 1 2 Moravec, František; Gey, Delphine; Justine, Jean-Lou (2016). "Nematode parasites of four species of Carangoides (Osteichthyes: Carangidae) in New Caledonian waters, with a description of Philometra dispar n. sp. (Philometridae)". Parasite. 23: 40. doi:10.1051/parasite/2016049. ISSN   1776-1042. PMC   5018933 . PMID   27615321. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg