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The intermediate hosts of Wardium cirrosa (Krabbe, 1869) Spassky, 1961 (Cestoda, Cyclophyllidea, Aploparaksidae) in Ukraine

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The metacestodes of aploparaksid cestode Wardium cirrosa Krabbe, 1869 parasitic in gulls were found in polychaetes of the family Nereidae collected off the Black Sea coast, Ukraine. Two species of polychaetes, Hediste diversicolor (prevalence 5.3%; intensity 1–3 specimens) and Neanthes succinea (prevalence 9.9%; intensity 1–39 specimens), were infected with cysticercoids that were observed either individually or in accumulations. The preliminary identification of the material based on morphological characteristics was later confirmed by experimental infection of the definitive host, Larus cachinnans (Charadriiformes: Laridae) with metacestodes, and by the identity of the partial 28S rDNA sequences of cysticercoids and experimentally obtained adults. Although previous studies suggested freshwater leeches as the intermediate host for W. cirrosa, our study provides the evidence for marine polychaetes to serve as intermediate hosts. This study is the first to present the morphological characteristics of metacestodes of W. cirrosa in addition to molecular data for this species, as well as reporting the possibility of several cysticercoids developing from a single oncosphere. Morphology of the adult specimens obtained in the experiment was compared with adults of W. cirrosa previously collected from L. cachinnans in Ukraine. The results of our study suggest that further research focused on the elucidation of the life cycles of cestodes within the genus Wardium should consider marine invertebrates as potential intermediate hosts.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Dr. Yuriy Moskalenko, a scientific researcher of the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, for his help in collecting the material used during this study. We would like to thank Dr. Olga I. Lisitsyna, a senior researcher from the Department of Parasitology, Institute of Zoology, for assistance in material collection and in polychaete dissections.

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  2. Institute of Ecology, Nature Research Centre, Akademijos, 2, 08412, Vilnius, Lithuania

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Greben, O., Kudlai, O. & Kornyushin, V.V. The intermediate hosts of Wardium cirrosa (Krabbe, 1869) Spassky, 1961 (Cestoda, Cyclophyllidea, Aploparaksidae) in Ukraine. Parasitol Res 118, 3129–3137 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-019-06453-0

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