Macrobothriotaenia ficta (Cestoda: Proteocephalidea), a parasite of sunbeam snake (Xenopeltis unicolor): example of convergent evolution

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F13%3A00420982" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/13:00420982 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3640.3.12" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3640.3.12</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3640.3.12" target="_blank" >10.11646/zootaxa.3640.3.12</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Macrobothriotaenia ficta (Cestoda: Proteocephalidea), a parasite of sunbeam snake (Xenopeltis unicolor): example of convergent evolution
Original language description
The poorly known proteocephalidean cestode Macrobothriotaenia ficta (Meggitt, 1931) from the sunbeam snake Xenopeltis unicolor (Ophidia: Xenopeltidae) is redescribed on the basis of re-examination of its type specimens from Burma (Myanmar), and vouchersfrom Thailand and Vietnam. The peculiar morphology of the scolex, which is formed by four pedunculate lobe-bearing pincer-shaped suckers, is described for the first time using scanning electron microscopy. In scolex morphology, M. ficta closely resemblesphyllobothriidean cestodes, parasites of elasmobranchs. However, this similarity does not reflect phylogenetic relatedness of these cestodes but instead presents an example of convergent morphological evolution of attachment organs of unrelated groups of cestodes that parasitize different groups of vertebrates. Besides scolex morphology, the genus is characterised by the possession of a very large cirrus-sac, which may reach up to the midline of proglottides, few testes (less than 60),
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EB - Genetics and molecular biology
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP506%2F12%2F1632" target="_blank" >GAP506/12/1632: From fish to man and from water to the earth: evolutionary history of tapeworms parasitizing tetrapodes (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidea)</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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