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Record of Urocleidoides vaginoclaustrum Jogunoori, Kritsky and Venkatanarasaiah, 2004 (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) from a freshwater fish in Mexico

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We describe herein the first occurrence of the monogenean Urocleidoides vaginoclaustrum in the wild. This monogenean was originally described from an aquarium neotropical fish examined in India. Worms were collected from the gills of Xiphophorus hellerii, a species native to tropical Mexico but introduced to the Los Berros Spring in the State of Durango, Northern Mexico. These specimens showed slight morphological differences in the sclerotized structures of the haptor with respect to the specimens described from India. A brief morphological characterization of this species is presented.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Mara Neri Fajardo for her help during field work, and Norman Mercado-Silva (Institute of Ecology, A. C., México) for the reviewing of the English. The first author was supported by CONACyT (Mexico) scholarship number 192899.

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  1. Laboratorio de Helmintología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Circuito Exterior s/n, Cuidad Universitaria, Apartado Postal 70-153, C. P. 04510, México, D. F., Mexico

    C. A. Mendoza-Palmero

  2. Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Apartado Postal 70-399, C. P. 04510, México D. F., Mexico

    R. Aguilar-Aguilar

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Mendoza-Palmero, C.A., Aguilar-Aguilar, R. Record of Urocleidoides vaginoclaustrum Jogunoori, Kritsky and Venkatanarasaiah, 2004 (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) from a freshwater fish in Mexico. Parasitol Res 103, 1235–1236 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-008-1119-9

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