Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-dfsvx Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-26T23:08:29.043Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

First description of a Raphidascaris species (Nematoda: Raphidascarididae) in a mudskipper Apocryptes bato (Actinopterygii: Gobiidae) from West Bengal, India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2021

B.K. Patra Open the ORCID record for B.K. Patra [Opens in a new window] ,
A. Choudhury Open the ORCID record for A. Choudhury [Opens in a new window] ,
R. Thorn Open the ORCID record for R. Thorn [Opens in a new window]  and
A. Ash Open the ORCID record for A. Ash [Opens in a new window]
B.K. Patra
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, The University of Burdwan, Golapbag, Burdwan 713104, India
A. Choudhury
Affiliation:
Division of Natural Sciences, St Norbert College, 100 Grant Street, De Pere, Wisconsin 54115, USA
R. Thorn
Affiliation:
Division of Natural Sciences, St Norbert College, 100 Grant Street, De Pere, Wisconsin 54115, USA
A. Ash*
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, The University of Burdwan, Golapbag, Burdwan 713104, India
*
Author for correspondence: A. Ash, E-mail: anirbanash@gmail.com
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

A new nematode species, Raphidascaris mundeswariensis n. sp. (Raphidascarididae), is described from male and female specimens found in the intestines of the mudskipper Apocryptes bato (Hamilton, 1822) (Gobiidae) from the Mundeswari River of West Bengal, India. This species is distinguished from its congeners by 214–255-μm-long spicules, 14 pairs of preanal papillae of two markedly different sizes, one pair of adanal papillae, six pairs of postanal papillae and the absence of lateral alae. Phylogenetic analyses using partial sequences of the 28S ribosomal RNA gene place the new species in a clade containing Raphidascaris gigi, Raphidascaris lophii, Raphidascaris longispicula and two species of Hysterothylacium. The molecular analyses also corroborate results of previous studies that have found Raphidascaris and Hysterothylacium to be paraphyletic. The finding of R. mundeswariensis in A. bato is the first Raphidascaris species described from a mudskipper anywhere.

Keywords

RaphidascarisNematodaApocryptestropicalWest Bengalparasitesnew speciesfreshwater fishesphylogenetics
Type
Research Paper
Information
Journal of Helminthology , Volume 95 , 2021 , e41
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bajpai, RN and Haldar, DP (1982) Observations on two myxosporidan parasites (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) from the gall bladder of fresh water fishes. Archiv fur Protistenkunde 125(1–4), 129–136.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Barman, RP, Mukherjee, P and Kar, S (2000) Marine and estuarine fishes. Fauna of Gujarat State Fauna Series. Zoological Survey of India 8, 311–411.Google Scholar
Baylis, HA and Daubney, R (1922) Report on the parasitic nematodes in the collection of the Zoological survey of India. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 7(4), 263–347.Google Scholar
Bowen, WR, Hemann, CC, Johnson, AA and Good, BH (1990) Mermithid Nematodes: SEM observations comparing hexamethyldisilazane and critical point drying methods. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 44, 16–18.Google Scholar
Carreno, R and Nadler, SA (2003) Phylogenetic analysis of the Metastrongyloidea (Nematoda: Strongylida) inferred from ribosomal RNA gene sequences. Journal of Parasitology 89, 965–973.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Deardorff, TL and Overstreet, RM (1980) Review of Hysterothylacium and Iheringascaris (both previously = Thynnascaris) (Nematoda: Anasakidae) from the northern Gulf of Mexico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 93(4), 192–217.Google Scholar
Froese, R and Pauly, D (Eds) (2019) FishBase. Available at www.fishbase.org., version 12/2019 (accessed 07 March 2021).Google Scholar
Fujita, T (1928) Further studies on nematodes from fishes of Lake Biwa. Dobutsugaku Zasshi 40, 303–314 (in Japanese with English summary).Google Scholar
Hartwich, G (1974) No 2. Keys to genera of the Ascaridoidea. p. 15 in Anderson, RC, Chabaud, AG and Willmott, S (Eds) CIH keys to the nematode vertebrates. Bucks, UK, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Farnham Royal.Google Scholar
Hoffman, GL (1999) Parasites of North American freshwater fishes. 539 pp. Ithaca, New York, Comstock Publishing Associates.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Huelsenbeck, JP and Ronquist, F (2001) Mr. BAYES: Bayesian inference of phylogenetic trees. Bioinformatics 17, 754–755.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Khan, D and Yaseen, T (1969) Helminth parasites of fishes of East Pakistan. 1. Nematodes. Bulletin of the Department of Zoology, Panjab University 4, 1–33.Google Scholar
Kumar, S, Stecher, G and Tamura, K (2016) MEGA7: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis version 7.0 for bigger datasets. Molecular Biology and Evolution 33, 1870–1874.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Li, L, An, R and Zhang, L (2007) A new species of Hysterothylacium (Nematoda: Anisakidae) from marine fishes from Yellow Sea, China, with a key to the species of the species of the genus Hysterothylacium. Zootaxa 1614, 43–52.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Li, L, Liu, YY, Liu, BC and Zhang, LP (2012) Morphological and molecular evidence for a new species of the genus Raphidascaris (Nematoda: Anisakidae) from marine fishes from the South China Sea. Parasitology Research 110, 1473–1479.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Li, L, Gibson, DI and Zhang, LP (2016) An annotated catalogue of the ascaridoid nematode parasites of Chinese vertebrates. Systematic Parasitology 93(1), 1–35.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Malta, LS, Paiva, F, Elisei, C, Tavares, LER and Pereira, FB (2018) A new species of Raphidascaris (Nematoda: Raphidascarididae) infecting the fish Gymnogeophagus balzanii (Cichlidae) from the Pantanal wetlands, Brazil and a taxonomic update of the subgenera of Raphidascaris based on molecular phylogeny and morphology. Journal of Helminthology, 1–10. doi: 10.1017/S0022149X18001153.Google Scholar
Malta, LS, Paiva, F, Elisei, C, Tavares, LER and Pereira, FB (2020) Integrative taxonomy of Sprentascaris mahnerti and phylogeny of raphidascaridid nematodes (Nematoda: Ascaridoidea: Raphidascarididae) suggest the monophyly of Sprentascaris. Parasitology International 74, 101978. doi: 10.1016/j.parint.2019.101978.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Miller, MA, Pfeiffer, W and Schwartz, T (2010) Creating the CIPRES science gateway for inference of large phylogenetic trees. pp. 1–8 in Proceedings of the Gateway Computing Environments Workshop (GCE), 14 November 2010, New Orleans, Louisiana.Google Scholar
Moravec, F (1994) Parasitic nematodes of freshwater fishes of Europe. 473 pp. Dordrecht, the Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers.Google Scholar
Moravec, F (1998) Nematodes of freshwater fishes of the neotropical region. 464 pp. Prague, Academia.Google Scholar
Moravec, F and Justine, JL (2020) New records of anisakid nematodes from marine fishes off New Caledonia, with descriptions of five new species of Raphidascaris (Ichthyascaris) (Nematoda, Anisakidae). Parasite 27, 20–45.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Moravec, F and Nagasawa, K (2002) Redescription of Raphidascaris gigi Fujita, 1928 (Nematoda: Anisakidae), a parasite of freshwater fishes in Japan. Systematic Parasitology 52, 193–198.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Moravec, F and Thatcher, VE (1997) Procamallanus (Denticamallanus subgen. n.) dentatus n. sp. (Nematoda:Camallanidae) from the characid fish, Bryconops alburnoides, in the Brazilian Amazon. Parasite 4, 239–243.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Moravec, F, Kohn, A and Fernandes, BMM (1990) First record of Raphidascaris (Sprentascaris) hypostomi (Petter & Cassone, 1984) comb. N. And R. (S.) mahnerti (Petter & Cassone, 1984) comb.n. (Nematoda: Anisakidae) from Brazil with remarks on the taxonomic status of this genus Sprentascaris Petter et Cassone, 1984. Folia Parasitologica 37, 131–140.Google Scholar
Murdy, EO and Jaafar, Z (2017) Taxonomy and systematics review. pp. 1–36 in Jaafar, Z and Murdy, EO (Eds) Fishes out of water, biology and ecology of mudskippers. 390 pp. London, UK, CRC Press.Google Scholar
Nadler, SA and Hudspeth, DSS (2000) Phylogeny of the Ascaridoidea (Nematoda: Ascaridida) based on three genes and morphology: hypotheses of structural and sequence evolution. Journal of Parasitology 86, 380–393.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Nadler, SA, D'Amelio, S, Fagerholm, H-P, Berland, B and Paggi, L (2000) Phylogenetic relationships among species of Contracaecum Railliet & Henry, 1912 and Phocascaris Høst, 1932(Nematoda:Ascaridoidea) based on nuclear rDNA sequence data. Parasitology 121, 455–463.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Parenti, L and Jaafar, Z (2017) The natural distribution of mudskippers. pp. 37–68 in Jaafar, Z and Murdy, EO (Eds) Fishes out of water, biology and ecology of mudskippers. 390 pp. London, UK, CRC Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pereira, FB, Tavares, LER, Scholz, T and Luque, JL (2015) A morphological and molecular study of two species of Raphidascaroides Yamaguti, 1941 (Nematoda: Anisakidae), parasites of doradid catfish (Siluriformes) in South America, with a description of R. moraveci n. sp. Systematic Parasitology 91, 49–61.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pleijel, F, Jondelius, U, Norlinder, E, Nygren, A, Oxelman, B, Schander, C, Sundberg, P and Thollesson, M (2008) Phylogenies without roots? A plea for the use of vouchers in molecular phylogenetic studies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48, 369–371.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Smith, JD (1984) Taxonomy of Raphidascaris spp. (Nematoda, Anisakidae) of fishes, with a redescription of R. acus (Bloch, 1772). Canadian Journal of Zoology 62, 685–694.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sood, ML (1988) Fish nematodes from South Asia. 1st edn. 62–98 pp. Delhi, Kalyani Publishers.Google Scholar
Sood, ML (2017) Fish nematodes from South Asia. 2nd edn. 62–98 pp. Delhi, Kalyani Publishers.Google Scholar
Soota, TD (1983) Studies on nematode parasites of Indian vertebrates. 1st edn. Vol. 54, pp. 92–112. Calcutta, Miscellaneous Publication.Google Scholar
Soota, TD and Chaturvedi, Y (1971) Notes on some nematodes from the unnamed collection of the Zoological Survey of India. Proceedings of the Zoological Society, Calcutta 24, 13–24.Google Scholar
Talwar, PK and Jhingran, AG (1991) Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries. Vol. 2. pp 543–1097. Calcutta, Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.Google Scholar
Wang, PC (1965) Notes on some nematodes of the suborder Ascaridata from Fukien, China. Acta Parasitologica Sinica 2, 366–379.Google Scholar
Wu, HW (1949) A note on two parasitic nematodes of fishes. Sinensia 20, 51–57.Google Scholar
Xu, Z, Zhang, LP, Liu, BC and Li, L (2012) Morphological and molecular characterization of Raphidascaris (Ichthyascaris) lophii (Wu, 1949) (Nematoda, Anisakidae) from marine fishes from China, with a key to the species of the subgenus Ichthyascaris. Acta Parasitologica 57(3), 316–322.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Supplementary material: Image

Patra et al. supplementary material

Patra et al. supplementary material

Download Patra et al. supplementary material(Image)
Image 7.2 MB