Journal
PARASITOLOGY
Volume 146, Issue 6, Pages 805-813Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182018002172
Keywords
Catfish; DNA barcode; halzoun; heron; hybridization; incomplete lineage sorting; molecular prospecting; yellow grub
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- South African Research Chairs Initiative of the Department of Science and Technology
- National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa [101054]
- Puerto Rico Science Technology Research Trust
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The genus Clinostomoides Dollfus, 1950 was erected to accommodate a single worm from Ardea goliath sampled in the Belgian Congo. The specimen was distinguished from other clinostomids by its large size and posterior genitalia. In the following years, metacercariae of Clinostomoides brieni, have been described in Clarias spp. in southern and western Africa. A few authors have referred to Clinostomum brieni, but all such usages appear to be lapsus calami, and the validity of Clinostomoides remains widely accepted. In this study our aim was: position C. brieni among the growing clinostomids molecular database, and redescribe the species with emphasis on characters that have emerged as important in recent work. We sequenced two nuclear (partial 18S and ITS) and one mitochondrial marker (partial cytochrome c oxidase I) and studied morphology in metacercariae from hosts and localities likely to harbour the type species (Clarias spp., Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa). Phylogenetic analysis shows C. brieni belongs within Clinostomum Leidy, 1856. We therefore transfer C. brieni to Clinostomum, amend the diagnosis for the genus Clinostomum and provide a critical analysis of other species in Clinostomoides, all of which we consider species inquirendae, as they rest on comparisons of different developmental stages.
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