Ascocotyle pindoramensis

Ascocotyle pindoramensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Opisthorchiida
Family: Heterophyidae
Genus: Ascocotyle
Species: A. pindoramensis
Binomial name
Ascocotyle pindoramensis
(Travassos, 1928)
Synonyms[1]
  • Pygidiopsis pindoramensis Travassos, 1928[2]
  • Pseudoascocotyle mollienisicola Sogandares-Bernal and Bridgman, 1960
  • Ascocotyle (Phagicola) mollienisicola: Sogandares-Bernal and Lumsden, 1963
  • Ascocotyle (Phagicola) pindoramensis: Simões et al., 2006

Ascocotyle pindoramensis is a fluke in the genus Ascocotyle that occurs along the eastern coast of the Americas from Brazil to Nicaragua, Mexico, Louisiana, and Florida[1] and doubtfully in Egypt.[3] It occurs in the intestine of its definitive hosts. Hosts recorded in the wild include the least bittern (Ixobrychus exilis), roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja), great blue heron (Ardea herodias), striated heron (Butorides striatus), stripe-backed bittern (Ixobrychus involucris), yellow-crowned night heron (Nyctanassa violacea), black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), osprey (Pandion haliaetus), Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus), and marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris).[1] In the marsh rice rat, it infected 9% of rats examined in a 1970–1972 study in the salt marsh at Cedar Key, Florida, but none in a freshwater marsh.[4] A. pindoramensis has been experimentally introduced into the domestic duck (Anas platyrhynchos domestica), chicken (Gallus gallus domestica), dog (Canis lupus familiaris), house mouse (Mus musculus), and golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus). It occurs in various body parts of its intermediate hosts—the poeciliid fish Phalloptychus januarius, Poecilia catemaconis, Poecilia mexicana, Poecilia mollienisicola, Poecilia vivipara, and a species of Xiphophorus and the cichlid Tilapia. It was first described as Pygidiopsis pindoramensis in 1928 and subsequently as Pseudoascocotyle mollienisicola in 1960. The latter species was moved to Ascocotyle in 1963, but only in 2006 it was recognized that the two represent the same species, which is now known as Ascocotyle pindoramensis.[1] Other flukes from Argentina and Mexico that were identified as Pygidiopsis pindoramensis instead represent a different species of Pygidiopsis.[5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Simões et al., 2006, p. 503
  2. Travassos, 1928
  3. Simões et al., 2006, p. 505
  4. Kinsella, 1988, table 1
  5. Simões et al., 2006, p. 501

Literature cited

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