Morphometric and molecular characterization of Parapharyngodon echinatus (Nematoda, Pharyngodonidae) from the Senegal gecko (Tarentola parvicarinata)

A West African species of gecko, Tarentola parvicarinata Joger (Gekkonidae), collected in the Niokolo Koba National Park in East Senegal is a new host species for the nematode Parapharyngodon echinatus (Rudolphi, 1819). Fifty one specimens of P. echinatus were studied under a light microscope and th...

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Published in:Acta parasitologica 2008-09, Vol.53 (3), p.274-283
Main Authors: Mašová, Šárka, Baruš, Vlastimil, Hodová, Iveta, Matějusová, Iveta, Koubek, Petr, Koubková, Božena
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
barcoding
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
Ecology
Electron microscopes
Gekkonidae
Medical Microbiology
Microbiology
Nematoda
Original Paper
P. micipsae
Parapharyngodon echinatus
Parasitology
Ribonucleic acid
RNA
SEM study
SSU
Tarentola parvicarinata
West Africa
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Summary:A West African species of gecko, Tarentola parvicarinata Joger (Gekkonidae), collected in the Niokolo Koba National Park in East Senegal is a new host species for the nematode Parapharyngodon echinatus (Rudolphi, 1819). Fifty one specimens of P. echinatus were studied under a light microscope and thirteen specimens were studied for the first time by a scanning electron microscope. The main differences between P. echinatus and other African species, especially Parapharyngodon micipsae (Seurat, 1917), were in the shape of annules on body cuticle, broad lateral alae and their terminations, the shape of the distal extremity of the spicule and number of outgrowths at the anterior cloacal lip. For the purposes of DNA characterization, partial sequence of the small subunit ribosomal RNA gene (SSU rRNA) was obtained from two specimens of P. echinatus . This is the first published sequence of a species from the family Pharyngodonidae.
ISSN:1230-2821
1896-1851
DOI:10.2478/s11686-008-0039-2