Morphological and molecular data on a new species of Plagiorhynchus Lühe, 1911 Acanthocephala: Plagiorhynchidae from the long-billed curlew Numenius americanus from northern Mexico

M. Garcia-Varela, J. K. Park, J. S. Hernandez-Orts, C. D. Pinacho-Pinacho

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Abstract

A new species of the genus Plagiorhynchus Lühe, 1911 from the intestine of the long-billed curlew Numenius americanus from northern Mexico is described. Plagiorhynchus Plagiorhynchus aznari n. Sp. Is morphologically distinguished from other congeneric species from the Americas by having a trunk expanded anteriorly and a cylindrical proboscis, armed with 19 longitudinal rows of hooks, with 14-15 hooks each row. Nearly complete sequences of the small subunit and large subunit of the nuclear ribosomal DNA of the new species were determined and compared with available sequences from GenBank. Phylogenetic analyses inferred from the two molecular markers consistently showed that P. Plagiorhynchus aznari n. Sp. Is closely related to P. Plagiorhynchus allisonae, and this clade is sister to a clade formed by P. Prosthorhynchus transversus and P. Prosthorhynchus cylindraceus from Plagiorhynchidae. The new species represents the second record of the genus in Mexico and the fourth species in the Americas. The phylogenetic relationships among the members of the order Polymorphida in this study provide significant insights into the evolution of ecological associations between parasites and their definitive hosts. Our analyses suggest that the colonization of marine mammals, fish-eating birds and waterfowl in Polymorphidae might have occurred independently, from a common ancestor of Centrorhynchidae and Plagiorhynchidae that colonized terrestrial birds and mammals.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere61
JournalJournal of Helminthology
Volume94
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020

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Keywords

  • Key wordsAcanthocephala
  • LSU rDNA
  • Plagiorhynchidae
  • Plagiorhynchus
  • SSU rDNA
  • new species
  • systematic
  • taxonomy

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