Paranoplocephala feodorovi ( Gulyaev & Chechulin, 1996 )

Haukisalmi, Voitto, Henttonen, Heikki, Hardman, Lotta, Hardman, Michael, Laakkonen, Juha, Murueva, Galina, Niemimaa, Jukka, Shulunov, Stanislav & Vapalahti, Olli, 2009, Review of tapeworms of rodents in the Republic of Buryatia, with emphasis on anoplocephalid cestodes, ZooKeys 8 (8), pp. 1-18 : 8

Paranoplocephala feodorovi ( Gulyaev & Chechulin, 1996)

Paranoplocephala feodorovi was originally described as Parandrya feodorovi Gulyaev & Chechulin, 1996 from Arvicola terrestris (L.) (primary host), Microtus agrestis and M. maximowiczii from the Novosibirsk region in the south of West Siberia (type locality) and Zabaikalsk in Buryatia ( Gulyaev and Chechulin 1996; see Chechulin 1998 for further records in the latter region). Only a single specimen from Microtus fortis conforming to the description of P. feodorovi was encountered during the present study, which supports the secondary role of Microtus spp. in the epidemiology of this cestode.

Morphologically, P. feodorovi is closely related to P. blanchardi , the main difference being the antiporal extent of the testes (extending across the antiporal ventral longitudinal osmoregulatory canal in P. blanchardi , but not in P. feodorovi ). However, P. feodorovi is not genetically related to P. blanchardi . In the COI phylogram, P. feodorovi was associated with P. oeconomi , appearing as one of the basal lineages within Paranoplocephala ( Fig. 2 ). The phylogenetic position of P. feodorovi supports the hypothesis that Parandrya Gulyaev & Chechulin, 1996 is a synonym of Paranoplocephala s.l., as suggested by Haukisalmi and Henttonen (2000) and Haukisalmi and Wickström (2005).

Voucher specimen: MSB Endo 155 from M. fortis (Maloje Kolesova) .

Figures

Fig. 2. A neighbour-joining reconstruction of partial cytochrome oxidase I (mtDNA) sequences of Paranoplocephala spp., Andrya rhopalocephala and Neandrya cuniculi from lagomorphs were used as an outgroup. The labels show the GenBank number for each sequence.Values at nodes show the percentage from 10000 bootstrap replicates.