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Description of Serpentirhabdias atroxi n. sp. (Nematoda: Rhabdiasidae), a parasite of Bothrops atrox (Linnaeus) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Viperidae) in Brazilian Amazonia

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A new lung-dwelling nematode species is described from the common lancehead Bothrops atrox (Linnaeus) in the Brazilian Amazon Region. The species is assigned to the genus Serpentirhabdias Tkach, Kuzmin & Snyder, 2014 based on the presence of six lips arranged in two lateral groups, the absence of prominent cuticular inflations, and lung parasitism in snakes. Serpentirhabdias atroxi n. sp. differs from other species of the genus mainly by details of the morphology of the anterior end: cuticularised ring surrounding the anterior part of the buccal cavity and six minute onchia present in the oesophastome. Serpentirhabdias atroxi n. sp. is the seventh species of the genus known from the Neotropical Realm and the second species described from viperid snakes.

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Beatriz Guerreiro Giese of the Laboratory of Histology and Animal Embryology, ISPA/UFRA, for her assistance with the preliminary analyses provided from part of her scientific initiation studies at Federal University of Pará (PIBIC-CNPQ/UFPA). We are also thankful to Ana Lúcia da Costa Prudente and Teresa Cristina Sauer de Avila-Pires from the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi for providing the museum specimens for helminthological examination. This study is part of the master’s dissertation of PAFBC from the Post Graduation Program in Biology of Infectious and Parasitic Agents /ICB-UFPA.

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This study was funded by PROPESP/PPGBAIP/UFPA, CAPES Foundation, the Ministry of Education of Brazil (grant CAPES–PARASITOLOGIA BÁSICA/2010), and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) (grants SISBiota 2010-Sistema Nacional de Pesquisa em Biodiversidade, PVE CAPES/CNPq A_033/2013, Research grant of productivity to JNS).

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  1. Department of Parasitology, I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 15 Bogdan Khmelnytskyi Street, Kiev, 01030, Ukraine

    Yuriy Kuzmin

  2. Laboratory of Histology and Animal Embryology, ISPA/Federal Rural University of Amazônia, Belém, Pará, Brazil

    Elane Guerreiro Giese

  3. Laboratory of Cell Biology and Helminthology “Prof. Dr. Reinalda Marisa Lanfredi”, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

    Francisco Tiago de Vasconcelos Melo, Paulo André Ferreira Borges da Costa & Jeannie Nascimento dos Santos

  4. Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Distance Learning of Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Pará, Brasil

    Gleomar Fabiano Maschio

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All applicable institutional, national and international guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed. Specimens were collected under permits 0004/06 NUC SUPES PA, project “Biodiversity survey of the herpetofauna according to the Research Program on PPBIO eastern Amazonia” and SISBIO 32660-1, project “Amphibian and reptile diversity and associated helminth parasites in the Amazon region”.

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Kuzmin, Y., Giese, E.G., Melo, F.T.d.V. et al. Description of Serpentirhabdias atroxi n. sp. (Nematoda: Rhabdiasidae), a parasite of Bothrops atrox (Linnaeus) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Viperidae) in Brazilian Amazonia. Syst Parasitol 93, 37–45 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-015-9603-y

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