Tapeworms (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) of Australian reptiles: hidden diversity of strictly host-specific parasites
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F18%3A00497890" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/18:00497890 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4461.4.2" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4461.4.2</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4461.4.2" target="_blank" >10.11646/zootaxa.4461.4.2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Tapeworms (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae) of Australian reptiles: hidden diversity of strictly host-specific parasites
Original language description
Reptilian fauna of Australia is extraordinarily rich and diverse, but very little is known about parasites of reptiles, including proteocephalid cestodes of the genus Ophiotaenia La Rue, 1911. In the present survey, data on these parasites are summarised for the first time based on detailed evaluation of all available type and voucher specimens. This survey includes five named species, with four species redescribed, namely O. amphiboluri (Nybelin, 1917), O. longmani Johnston, 1916, O. mjobergi (Nybelin, 1917), and O. striata (Johnston, 1914), and 9 putative new species which are not formally described because of their poor quality and scarce material. An identification key is given for the five named species and unnamed species are briefly characterised with focus on their differential characteristics to facilitate their description as new taxa in the future. Australian species of Ophiotaenia form a monophyletic lineage, whose members share several morphological traits which are absent or rare in other proteocephalids, such as a three-layered embryophore, a scolex with large, anteriorly directed suckers, eggs with thick-walled embryophores, exclusively dorsal and paramuscular position of vitelline follicles, and a postequatorial to equatorial genital pore in most species. A new genus, Australophiotaenia, is proposed to accommodate the species from Australian reptiles that share the above-mentioned characters.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Zootaxa
ISSN
1175-5326
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
4461
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
NZ - NEW ZEALAND
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
477-498
UT code for WoS article
000442494500002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85052154143