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Morphological and molecular description of Rhadinorhynchus laterospinosus Amin, Heckmann & Ha, 2011 (Acanthocephala, Rhadinorhynchidae) from marine fish off the Pacific coast of Vietnam
Amin, Omar Mohamed (Institute of Parasitic Diseases 11445 E. Via Linda 2-419 Scottsdale AZ 85259 USA)
Heckmann, Richard Anderson (Brigham Young University. Department of Biology)
Dallarés, Sara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia)
Constenla Matalobos, Maria (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia)
Ha, Nguyen Van (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology. Department of Parasitology. Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (IEBR))

Date: 2019
Abstract: Rhadinorhynchus laterospinosus Amin, Heckmann & Ha, 2011 (Rhadinorhynchidae) was described from a single female collected from a trigger fish, Balistes sp. (Balistidae) from the northern Pacific coast of Vietnam in Halong Bay, Gulf of Tonkin. More recent collections of fishes in 2016 and 2017 revealed wider host and geographical distributions. We report this Acanthocephala from nine species of fish representing six families (including the original record from Balistes sp. ) along the whole Pacific coast of Vietnam. The fish species are Alectis ciliaris (Carangidae), Auxis rochei (Scombridae), Auxis thazard (Scombridae), Leiognathus equulus (Leiognathidae), Lutjanus bitaeniatus (Lutjanidae), Megalaspis cordyla (Carangidae), Nuchequula flavaxilla (Leiognathidae), and Tylosurus sp. (Belonidae). We provide a complete description of males and females of R. laterospinosus, discuss its hook metal microanalysis using EDAX, and its micropores. Specimens of this species characteristically have lateral trunk spines bridging the anterior ring of spines with posterior field of ventral spines and a proboscis with 15-19 longitudinal alternating rows of 21-26 hooks each varying with host species. We demonstrate the effect of host species on the distribution and size of the trunk, proboscis, proboscis hooks, trunk spines, and reproductive structures. The molecular profile of this acanthocephalan, based on 18S rDNA and cox 1 genes, groups with other Rhadinorhynchus species and further seems to confirm the paraphyly of the genus, which is discussed.
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Language: Anglès
Document: Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject: Acanthocephala ; Rhadinorhynchus laterospinosus ; Host distribution ; Molecular profile ; EDAX ; Micropores ; Vietnam
Published in: Parasite, Vol. 26 (march 2019) , ISSN 1776-1042

DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2019015
PMID: 30838975


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