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This study shows the ultrastructure of the mature spermatozoon of Lecithostaphylus parexocoeti (Digenea, Microphalloidea, Zoogonidae) parasite of the flying fish Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus (Exocoetidae) captured in the Atlantic Ocean near Dakar (Senegal). This is the first report of L. parexocoeti from Senegal and from this host species. The mature spermatozoon is filiform and exhibits two axonemes of the 9+“1” pattern of the Trepaxonemata, an external ornamentation associated with spine-like bodies, parallel cortical microtubules, a nucleus, two mitochondria and granules of glycogen. The particularities of the spermatozoon of L. parexocoeti are the location of the first mitochondrion and the morphology of its anterior extremity with only cortical microtubules and external ornamentations of the plasma membrane. To our knowledge, this type of anterior extremity has never been described in the superfamily Microphalloidea. However, the ultrastructure of the posterior extremity of the spermatozoon corresponds to the fasciolidean type that was previously described in the Zoogonidae.
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The authors are grateful of the “Collectivité de Corse”. This study was also partly supported by the financial assistance of “Projet d’appui pour la Promotion des Enseignantes-chercheures du Sénégal (PAPES) du Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche du Sénégal”.
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Bâ, A., Bakhoum, A.J.S., Bâ, C.T. et al. Ultrastructure of the spermatozoon of Lecithostaphylus parexocoeti (Digenea, Microphalloidea, Zoogonidae) parasite of the flying fish Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus (Teleostei, Exocoetidae) off Senegal and their implication on the phylogenetic relationships in Microphalloidea. Zoomorphology 139, 319–326 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-020-00493-2
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