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Issue: Vol. 3295 No. 1: 1 May. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-05-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3295.1.1
Page range: 1–29
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The deep-sea fish digenean genus Tellervotrema Gibson & Bray, 1982 (Opecoelidae: Plagioporinae): Re-evaluation of the type species, T. armstrongi Gibson & Bray, 1982 and T. beringi (Mamaev, 1965)

58 Rock Creek Dr., Corpus Christi, Texas 78412-4214, U.S.A
Laboratory of Parasitology, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, 2258 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843-2258, U.S.A
Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, W 529 Nebraska Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0514, U.S.A
Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, W 529 Nebraska Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0514, U.S.A
Laboratory of Parasitology, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, 2258 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843-2258, U.S.A
Platyhelminthes Albatrossia pectoralis Coryphaenoides sp. deep sea Digenea Gulf of Mexico Macrouridae Nezumia aequalis Nezumia cyrano Opecoelidae Oregon Plagioporinae redescription Tellervotrema armstrongi Tellervotrema beringi

Abstract

Tellervotrema Gibson & Bray, 1982 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) was erected for Podocotyle-like species that possess asymmetrical pair of isolated groups of vitelline follicles in the posterior forebody, lack them dorsal to the caeca andparasitize archybenthal macrourid fishes. Tellervotrema armstrongi Gibson & Bray, 1982 is redescribed from the typehost, the common Atlantic grenadier, Nezumia aequalis (Günther), N. cyrano Marshall & Iwamoto, and from anunidentified macrourid collected from the northern Gulf of Mexico. Tellervotrema beringi (Mamaev, 1965) is redescribedfrom the giant grenadier, Albatrossia pectoralis (Gilbert), and Coryphaenoides sp. obtained from off Oregon. Thefollowing six features are suggested to distinguish T. armstrongi and T. beringi: egg size; position of the genital pore;posterior extent of the cirrus-sac relative to the ventral sucker; testes volume relative to hindbody size; anterior extent ofthe paired vitelline groups in the forebody; and geographic locality. The generic diagnosis of Tellervotrema is amended toinclude circumcaecal vitelline follicles, and the presence of the vitelline gap itself was found to be a more consistentdiagnostic generic character than the location of the resulting pair of distinct, isolated groups of vitelline follicles createdby the gap. A neotype and paraneotypes are designated for T. beringi. The following new host and locality records areestablished: first original report of T. armstrongi from N. cyrano; first report of a member of Tellervotrema from the giantgrenadier, A. pectoralis; and the waters off Oregon are a new locality record for Tellervotrema, a genus in the North PacificOcean known only from the Bering Sea and off Japan. A comprehensive listing of all parasites previously reported fromthe four macrourid species examined herein is given and intermediate hosts are postulated through which species of Tellervotrema may complete their life cycles in the deep.

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