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A new species of hemiuroidean trematode from Hatcheria macraei (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) and Heleobia hatcheri (Gastropoda, Cochliopidae) in a Patagonian River

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A new hemiuroidean species, Genarchella pichileufuensis n. sp. (Derogenidae: Halipeginae), was found in the stomach of the siluriform freshwater fish, Hatcheria macraei (Girard, 1855), in the Pichileufu River, Patagonia, Argentina. Its rediae with immature cystophorous cercariae were found in the snail Heleobia hatcheri (Pilsbry, 1911) in the same site. The present new species is morphologically featured by having a cyclocoel in the hindbody unlike the other species of the genus. The characteristics of this species allowed us to amend the diagnosis of the genus Genarchella as follows: cyclocoel present or absent; testes symmetrical to tandem; ootype pouch present. In the phylogenetic analysis, G. pichileufuensis forms a well-supported clade with Genarchella spp. recovered from Mexican freshwater fishes. This clade is included in the cluster of representatives of the subfamily Halipeginae. So far, three hemiuroidean species, Thometrema patagonica (Szidat, 1956), Derogenes lacustris Tsuchida, Flores, Viozzi, Rauque et Urabe, 2021 and G. pichileufuensis n. sp., have been reported from freshwater fishes in Argentinean Patagonia.

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Data availability

Specimens used in this study were deposited in the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Buenos Aires, Argentina), and the sequence data are available in the INSD.

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Acknowledgements

We thank S. Marquez from INIBIOMA (CONICET—UNCo) for helping us with the DNA extraction. We are grateful to Dr. G. Pérez-Ponce de León for providing us with information on Mexican Genarchella species through personal communication. We are also grateful to Drs. S. G. Sokolov and D. M. Atopkin for helping us with their sequence data. Samples were taken with the permission of National Park authorities (Permission No. 935). Financial support was provided by CONICET PIP 11220150100477 and a grant from Universidad Nacional del Comahue (B–225). We also thank the anonymous reviewers and editor whose comments improved our manuscript.

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This study was funded by CONICET PIP 11220150100477 and a grant from Universidad Nacional del Comahue (B-225).

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  1. Division of Environmental Dynamics, Graduate School of Environmental Sciences, The University of Shiga Prefecture, Hassaka, Hikone, Shiga, 522-8533, Japan

    Karin Tsuchida

  2. Department of Ecosystem Studies, School of Environmental Sciences, The University of Shiga Prefecture, 2500 Hassaka, Hikone, Shiga, 522-8533, Japan

    Misako Urabe

  3. Laboratorio de Parasitología, INIBIOMA (CONICET–Univ. Nac. del Comahue), Quintral 1250, (8400), San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina

    Gustavo Viozzi, Carlos Rauque & Verónica Flores

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Tsuchida, K., Urabe, M., Viozzi, G. et al. A new species of hemiuroidean trematode from Hatcheria macraei (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) and Heleobia hatcheri (Gastropoda, Cochliopidae) in a Patagonian River. Parasitol Res 120, 2523–2532 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-021-07210-y

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