Indopolystoma n. gen. sp., 2019

Chaabane, Amira, Verneau, Olivier & Preez, Louis Du, 2019, Indopolystoma n. gen. (Monogenea, Polystomatidae) with the description of three new species and reassignment of eight known Polystoma species from Asian frogs (Anura, Rhacophoridae), Parasite (Paris, France) 26 (67), pp. 1-18 : 15

Indopolystoma n. gen. sp.

Synonym: Polystoma indicum of Verneau et al. [ 51], Badets et al. [ 2] and Héritier et al. [ 22].

Type-host: Rhacophorus maximus Günther. Now Zhangixalus smaragdinus (Blyth) [ 21, 27].

Site: Bladder.

Type-locality: India.

Remarks: Indopolystoma sp. was tentatively assigned to P. indicum from Z. smaragdinus by Verneau et al. [ 51], Badets et al. [ 2] and Héritier et al. [ 22]. However, because we did not have any information on morphological characteristics of this species, which is nested in a clade with I. viridi , I. elongatum and I. parvum ( Fig. 1 ; see also [ 2, 22, 51]), we must for now consider it as an undescribed species of Indopolystoma .

Figures

Figure 1. Bayesian tree for neobatrachian polystomes inferred from the analysis of four concatenated genes, namely 18S, 28S, COI and 12S. Numbers on nodes indicate Bayesian Posterior Probabilities. Indopolystoma spp. were regarded earlier as Polystoma spp. in Badets et al. [2] and Héritier et al. [22]. B. w. refers to Blommersia wittei and Z. s. to Zhangixalus smaragdinus. See also Table 1 for other host species. Scale bar represents 0.1 substitution/site.