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Two new species of Bothriocephalus Rudolphi, 1808 (Cestoda: Bothriocephalidea) from marine fish off Australia and New Caledonia

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Two new species of bothriocephalidean tapeworms, Bothriocephalus australis n. sp. from the flatheads Platycephalus bassensis Cuvier (type host) and P. aurimaculatus Knapp off southern Australia and B. celineae n. sp. from a hybrid serranid Cephalopholis aurantia (Val.) × C. spiloparaea (Val.) from off New Caledonia, are described. B. australis is unique in the possession of the combination of the three characters: an elongate, obliquely situated cirrus-sac; a wide genital atrium surrounded by chromophilic cells; and a well-developed apical disc. B. celineae is typified by the presence of a low number of testes per segment (14–26), forming one or two incomplete longitudinal bands on each side of segment, and the small size of the strobila (total length 24 mm) which consists of less than 100 segments.

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Deux nouvelles espèces de cestodes Bothriocephalidea, Bothriocephalus australis n. sp. de poissons-crocodiles Platycephalus bassensis Cuvier (hôte-type) et P. aurimaculatus Knapp du Sud de l’Australie et B. celineae n. sp. d’un Serranidae hybride Cephalopholis aurantia (Val.) × C. spiloparaea (Val.) de Nouvelle-Calédonie, sont décrites. B. australis est défini par la combinaison unique de trois caractères: un sac du cirre allongé et situé obliquement, un atrium génital large entouré par des cellules chromophiles et un disque apical bien développé. B. celineae est caractérisé par la présence d’un petit nombre de testicules par segment (14–26) formant une ou deux bandes longitudinales incomplètes de chaque côté du segment, et la petite taille du strobile (longueur totale 24 mm) qui consiste en moins de 100 segments.

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The authors are grateful to I. Dyková from the Institute of Parasitology, I. Beveridge from the University of Melbourne and K. Hutson from the University of Adelaide, Australia for providing material of cestodes, to Jan “Honza” Brabec for data on DNA sequences and to Martina Borovková, both the Institute of Parasitology, for technical assistance. In New Caledonia, S. Tereua and G. Colli participated to the fishing expedition and parasitological survey, and J. Randall (Bishop Museum, Hawai’i) and L. Knapp (Smithsonian, Washington) identified certain fish (from photographs). This study was partially supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (project No. 524/08/0885), Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (project No. KJB600960902), Institute of Parasitology (Z60220518 and LC522), Faculty of Science (MSM 6007665801) and National Science Foundation (Planetary Biodiversity Inventory project “A survey of the tapeworms (Cestoda: Platyhelminthes) from vertebrate bowels of the earth” to Janine N. Caira) (Nos. 0818696 and 0818823).

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  1. Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic & Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

    Roman Kuchta & Tomáš Scholz

  2. Équipe Biogéographie Marine Tropicale, Unité Systématique, Adaptation, Évolution (CNRS, UPMC, MNHN, IRD), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, BP A5, 98848, Nouméa Cedex, Nouvelle-Calédonie

    Jean-Lou Justine

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Kuchta, R., Scholz, T. & Justine, JL. Two new species of Bothriocephalus Rudolphi, 1808 (Cestoda: Bothriocephalidea) from marine fish off Australia and New Caledonia. Syst Parasitol 73, 229–238 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-009-9184-8

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