Further observations of blunt-hooked raillietiellids (Pentastomida: Cephalobaenida) from lizards with descriptions of three new species

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العنوان: Further observations of blunt-hooked raillietiellids (Pentastomida: Cephalobaenida) from lizards with descriptions of three new species
المؤلفون: J. Riley, J. H. Ali, J. T. Self
المصدر: Systematic Parasitology. 6:147-160
بيانات النشر: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1984.
سنة النشر: 1984
مصطلحات موضوعية: Skink, Pentastomida, Taxon, biology, Animal ecology, fungi, Raillietiella, Zoology, Parasitology, Taxonomy (biology), Gecko, Sauria, biology.organism_classification
الوصف: Our earlier revisions of the taxonomy of blunt-hooked raillietiellid pentastomids infecting small lizards recognized six, mostly well characterized, species. Three of these,Raillietiella mabuiae, R. maculatus andR. hemidactyli, are re-examined in this study: an additional diagnostic character, the form of the male copulatory spicule, confirms the status of these species. Another, morphologically very similar species,Travassostulida freitasi from a South American skink, was ascribed to a new genusTravassostulida by Motta & Gomes (1968). We show that there is no justification for this separation and the species is renamedR. freitasi n. comb. Other South and Central American blunt-hooked species from geckos are indistinguishable from certain African and South East Asian forms—these may be new species but because their hosts have been disseminated through commerce we have left them unnamed: more specimens are required before their status can be confirmed. Three new species are described;R. scincoides infects an Australian skink,R. monarchus infects a South East Asian gecko andR. maculilabris comes from an African skink. Appropriate combinations of hook size, annulus number and the form of the male copulatory spicule form the principal diagnostic criteria by which these species can be recognized. The taxon now embraces ten species of blunt-hooked raillietiellids and is the second largest within the genusRaillietiella. ac]19830325
تدمد: 1573-5192
0165-5752
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::0619ba7f9a6f378f2f3c74477fb6e3a2
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02185523
حقوق: CLOSED
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi...........0619ba7f9a6f378f2f3c74477fb6e3a2
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE