Acanthobothrium bullardi

Acanthobothrium bullardi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Cestoda
Subclass: Eucestoda
Order: Tetraphyllidea
Family: Onchobothriidae
Genus: Acanthobothrium
Species: Acanthobothrium bullardi
Ghoshroy & Caira, 2001

Acanthobothrium bullardi is a species of parasitic onchobothriid tapeworm first found in the whiptail stingray, Dasyatis brevis, in the Gulf of California. It is relatively small, possesses few segments, relatively few testes, and shows asymmetrical ovaries. It also differs from its cogenerate species by its hook size and length of its hook prongs; cirrus sac size; the position of its genital pore, the number of testes columns that are anterior to the cirrus sac; as well as a number of postvaginal testes.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Ghoshroy, Sohini; Caira, Janine N. (2001). "Four new species of Acanthobothrium (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea) from the whiptail stingray Dasyatis brevis in the Gulf of California, Mexico". Journal of Parasitology. 87 (2): 354–372. doi:10.1645/0022-3395(2001)087[0354:FNSOAC]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-3395. PMID 11318566.

Further reading

  • Reyda, Florian B., and Janine N. Caira. "Five new species of Acanthobothrium (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea) from Himantura uarnacoides (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) in Malaysian Borneo." Comparative Parasitology 73.1 (2006): 49-71.
  • Maleki, Loghman, Masoumeh Malek, and Harry W. Palm. "Two new species of Acanthobothrium (Tetraphyllidea: Onchobothriidae) from Pastinachus cf. sephen (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman." Folia parasitologica 60.5 (2013): 448-456.
  • List, Host-Parasite, and Parasite-Host List. "Bibliography database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali)."


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