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Issue: Vol. 4320 No. 3: 18 Sept. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-09-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4320.3.3
Page range: 447–469
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A new species of Argulus (Crustacea, Branchiura, Argulidae) from the skin of catfish, with new records of branchiurans from wild fish in the Brazilian Pantanal wetland

Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Prédio da PG-IB, Bloco O, Avenida Bertrand Russel, s/n, CEP 13083-865, Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil.
Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação da Biodiversidade Aquática Continental do Instituto Chico Mendes para Conservação da Biodiversidade, Rod. Pref. Euberto Nemésio Pereira de Godoy, Km 6,5, CEP 13630-970, Pirassununga, São Paulo, Brasil.
Universidade de Taubaté, Departamento de Biologia, Av. Tiradentes, 500, Bom Conselho, CEP 12030-180, Taubaté, São Paulo, Brasil.
Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Parasitologia Animal, BR-465, Km 7, CEP 23851-970 Caixa Postal 74508, Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação da Biodiversidade Aquática Continental do Instituto Chico Mendes para Conservação da Biodiversidade, Rod. Pref. Euberto Nemésio Pereira de Godoy, Km 6,5, CEP 13630-970, Pirassununga, São Paulo, Brasil.
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Prédio da PG-IB, Bloco O, Avenida Bertrand Russel, s/n, CEP 13083-865, Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil. Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Rua Prof. Artur Riedel, 275, Jd. Eldorado, CEP 09972-270, Diadema, São Paulo, Brasil.
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Departamento de Patologia, Cidade Universitária, s/n, CEP 79070-900, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil.
Crustacea Biodiversity fish lice parasite Neotropics Brazil SEM

Abstract

During a survey conducted in the Cuiabá and Paraguay Rivers in the Brazilian Pantanal wetland, in the states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, we found branchiurans associated with Pseudoplatystoma reticulatum, Pseudoplatystoma corruscans, Salminus brasiliensis and Zungaro zungaro. These branchiurans correspond to Argulus chiropteroideus sp. n., Argulus multicolor, Argulus nattereri, Argulus pestifer, Dolops carvalhoi and Dolops longicauda. Besides the description of the new species, in this study we also provide important morphological notes for diagnosis of the other species. Specimens of Argulus chiropteroideus sp. n. were collected from skin of P. reticulatum and P. corruscans. They differ from A. multicolor and Argulus chicomendesi, in the shape of the postantennal spines, which is medially convex and has two lateral and one anterior stout tips in the new species, and for having three claviform, digitate spines on the base of the second maxillae (absent in A. multicolor; three conical, short spines in A. chicomendesi). A. chiropteroideus sp. n. do not have an anterior and a posterior spine on first two segments of first antenna, as well as no flagellum on the dorsal surface of the first two pairs of legs, structures present in A. multicolor and A. chicomendesi. The new species also differ from A. multicolor and A. chicomendesi, in the shape and number of sclerites that compound the support rods of the suction cup.

 

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