Mesocestoides sp., Vaillant, 1863

Mariaux, Jean & Georgiev, Boyko B., 2020, Cestode parasites (Neodermata, Platyhelminthes) from Malaysian birds, with description of five new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 616, pp. 1-35 : 30

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.616
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:144F0449-7736-44A0-8D75-FA5B95A04E23
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4332085
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scientific name	Mesocestoides sp.
status

Treatment

Mesocestoides sp. (larvae)

Material examined

MALAYSIA • 6 larval forms (in mesenteries); Selangor, University of Malaya’s Gombak Field Station ; 3.32° N, 101.77° E; 280–350 m a.s.l.; 7Aug. 2010; partial COI sequence, Genbank MN 590294 View Materials ; MHNG-PLAT-121160 GoogleMaps .

Host

Philentoma pyrhoptera (Temminck, 1836) ( Passeriformes , Vangidae ).

Remarks

The presence, possibly massive, of tetrathyridia is known from many avian species, including Passeriformes over almost all the world ( Literák et al. 2004; Mariaux et al. 2017; Heneberg et al. 2019). This is a new host and locality for the genus.

References

Heneberg P., Georgiev B. B., Sitko J. & Literak I. 2019. Massive infection of a song thrush by Mesocestoides sp. (Cestoda) tetrathyridia that genetically match acephalic metacestodes causing lethal peritoneal larval cestodiasis in domesticated mammals. Parasites and Vectors 12: e 230. https: // doi. org / 10.1186 / s 13071 - 019 - 3480 - 1

Literak I., Olson P. D., Georgiev B. B. & Spakulova M. 2004. First record of metacestodes of Mesocestoides sp. in the common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) in Europe, with an 18 S rDNA characterisation of the isolate. Folia Parasitologica 51: 45 - 49. https: // doi. org / 10.14411 / fp. 2004.006

Mariaux J., Tkach V. V., Vasileva G. P., Waeschenbach A., Beveridge I., Dimitrova Y. D., Haukisalmi V., Greiman S. E., Littlewood D. T. J., Makarikov A. A., Philips A. J., Razafiarisolo T., Widmer V. & Georgiev B. B. 2017. Cyclophyllidea van Beneden in Braun, 1900. In: Caira J. N. & Jensen K. (eds) Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (2008 - 2017): Tapeworms from the Vertebrate Bowels of the Earth: 77 - 148. University of Kansas, Lawrence.