Kirstenella Kuchta

Kuchta, Roman, Burianová, Alena, Jirkú, Miloslav, Chambrier, Alain, Oros, Mikuláš, Brabec, Jan & Scholz, Tomáš, 2012, Bothriocephalidean tapeworms (Cestoda) of freshwater fish in Africa, including erection of Kirstenella n. gen. and description of Tetracampos martinae n. sp., Zootaxa 3309, pp. 1-35 : 8-9

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3309.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6174505

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scientific name

Kirstenella Kuchta
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Kirstenella Kuchta View in CoL n. gen.

Diagnosis: Bothriocephalidea , Bothriocephalidae . Medium-sized worms. Segmentation present. Segments trapeziform, craspedote. Scolex elongate. Bothria elongate, shallow. Apical disc present, as wide as, or slightly wider, than bothrial part of scolex, armed with large, simple hooks arranged in two lateral semicircles. Neck absent. Testes in two lateral fields, continuous between segments. Cirrus-sac thick-walled, spherical, large, representing as much as 1/6–2/5 of segment width; internal seminal vesicle present; cirrus unarmed. Genital pore dorsal, median. Ovary compact, bilobed, transversely elongate. Vagina posterior to cirrus-sac, enlarged distally. Vitelline follicles cortical, in two lateral fields continuous between segments. Uterine duct sinuous, S-shaped, enlarging in gravid segments. Uterus small, oval. Uterine pore median. Eggs operculate, unembryonated. In freshwater siluriforms. Africa.

Etymology: The new genus is named in honour of Kirsten Jensen, University of Kansas at Lawrence, USA, for her outstanding contribution to cestode systematics.

Type and only species: Kirstenella gordoni ( Woodland, 1937) Kuchta, n. comb.

Remarks: The new genus is placed in Bothriocephalidae Lönnberg, 1889 because it possesses the median genital pore, follicular vitellaria, and a ventral uterine pore ( Kuchta et al. 2008a, b). It is typified by combination of the following characteristics: (1) scolex is elongate with a small apical disc armed with two lateral semicircles of hooks; (2) cirrus-sac is large (its width represents as much as 1/6–2/5 of the width of segments) and it is situated perpendicularly; (3) a low number of testes (less than 75 per segment); (4) vagina is enlarged distally; (5) vitellaria are cortical.

Kirstenella View in CoL differs from all but three bothriocephalid genera ( Polyonchobothrium Diesing, 1854 , Senga Dollfus, 1934 and Tetracampos Wedl, 1861 ) in the presence of an apical disc armed with two lateral semicircles of large hooks ( Kuchta et al. 2008b). The new genus can be distinguished from Tetracampos by the presence of cortical (instead of medullary) vitelline follicles and presence of operculate, thin-walled (vs. unoperculated, with hyaline membrane) eggs. The new genus can be distinguished from Polyonchobothrium and Senga mainly by the relative size of the cirrus-sac, which is markedly larger (ratio of its width to the width of segments 16–39%) than that of species of Senga (ratio 4–10%) and Polyonchobothrium (ratio 5–10%), and is situated more perpendicularly in Kirstenella View in CoL , whereas longitudinally or obliquely in the two remaining genera ( Figs. 19, 22 View FIGURES 15–22 , 38, 39 View FIGURES 33–40 ). Moreover, Polyonchobothrium has a markedly wider apical disc (350–510 µm) and much larger hooks (up to 190 μm) mostly distributed in 4 quadrants, whereas Kirstenella View in CoL has a slender apical disc (230–300 μm) with smaller apical hooks (shorter than 90 μm) distributed in 2 semicircles. Hooks of Senga have an indistinct blade and handle (data not shown), whereas those of Kirstenella View in CoL have the blade well differentiated from the handle ( Figs. 16, 18 View FIGURES 15–22 ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Platyhelminthes

Class

Cestoda

Order

Bothriocephalidea

Family

Bothriocephalidae

Loc

Kirstenella Kuchta

Kuchta, Roman, Burianová, Alena, Jirkú, Miloslav, Chambrier, Alain, Oros, Mikuláš, Brabec, Jan & Scholz, Tomáš 2012
2012
Loc

Senga

Dollfus 1934
1934
Loc

Senga

Dollfus 1934
1934
Loc

Senga

Dollfus 1934
1934
Loc

Senga

Dollfus 1934
1934
Loc

Tetracampos

Wedl 1861
1861
Loc

Tetracampos

Wedl 1861
1861
Loc

Polyonchobothrium

Diesing 1854
1854
Loc

Polyonchobothrium

Diesing 1854
1854
Loc

Polyonchobothrium

Diesing 1854
1854
Loc

Polyonchobothrium

Diesing 1854
1854
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