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A revision of the genus Aphalloides (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae), parasites of European brackish water fishes

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Trematodes of the genus Aphalloides Dollfus, Chabaud & Golvan, 1957 reach maturity in their second intermediate host, small fishes of the family Gobionellidae, genera Pomatoschistus and Knipowitschia. Two morphologically similar species have been described from European waters: Aphalloides coelomicola Dollfus et al., 1957 in the Mediterranean Sea (including the brackish Black Sea region) and Aphalloides timmi Reimer, 1970 in the Baltic Sea. There was no difference in morphology and morphometry for specimens corresponding to A. coelomicola and A. timmi and examination of the 28S rDNA sequence confirmed the similarity. Based on these results, these two species are synonymized and A. coelomicola redescribed.

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The study received financial support from the European Centre of Ichthyoparasitology–Centre of Excellence, Grant Agency of the Czech Republic Project No. P505/12/G112. We thank Kevin Roche for English correction.

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  1. Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Květná 8, 60365, Brno, Czech Republic

    Yuriy Kvach & Anna Bryjová

  2. Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, 37005, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

    Yuriy Kvach

  3. Institute of Marine Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Pushkinska 37, Odessa, 65011, Ukraine

    Yuriy Kvach

  4. UPSL Research University: EPHE-UPVD-CNRS, USR 3278 CRIOBE, BP 1013, 98 729, Papetoai, Moorea, French Polynesia

    Pierre Sasal

  5. Institute of Biosciences/Zoology, Rostock University, Universitätsplatz 2, 18055, Rostock, Germany

    Helmut M. Winkler

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Kvach, Y., Bryjová, A., Sasal, P. et al. A revision of the genus Aphalloides (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae), parasites of European brackish water fishes. Parasitol Res 116, 1973–1980 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-017-5480-4

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