"Spirorchis spp. (Digenea: Schistosomatoidea) infecting map turtles (Cr" by Jackson R. Roberts, Micah B. Warren et al.

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Spirorchis spp. (Digenea: Schistosomatoidea) infecting map turtles (Cryptodira: Emydidae: Graptemys spp.) in southeastern North America: A new species, molecular phylogenies, and key to species

Authors

Jackson R. Roberts, Museum of Natural Sciences & Biological Sciences Department, Louisiana State University, 119 Foster Hall, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA.
Micah B. Warren, Aquatic Parasitology Laboratory, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences, College of Agriculture, Auburn University, 203 Swingle Hall, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA.
Kenneth M. Halanych, Molette Biology Laboratory for Environmental and Climate Change Studies, Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, 101 Rouse Life Sciences Building, Auburn, AL, 36830, USA.
Stephen A. Bullard, Aquatic Parasitology Laboratory, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences, College of Agriculture, Auburn University, 203 Swingle Hall, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA. ash.bullard@auburn.edu.

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Article

Publication Date

1-1-2019

Abstract

Black-knobbed map turtles (Graptemys nigrinoda Cagle) and Alabama map turtles (Graptemys pulchra Baur) were infected with several blood flukes in Alabama (southeastern North America). Spirorchis paraminutus Roberts & Bullard n. sp. differs from its congeners by having a body that is 12-24× longer than wide, a testicular column of 10 testes that is 1/5-1/4 of the body length and located far posterior to the caecal bifurcation (the anterior-most testis is located in the posterior body half), and a common genital pore that is ventral to the ovary and 1/4-1/3 of the body length from the posterior extremity. These turtles and an Escambia map turtle (Graptemys ernsti Lovich & McCoy) were infected with Spirorchis elegans Stunkard, 1923, Spirorchis scripta Stunkard, 1923 and two innominate species of Spirorchis MacCallum, 1918. Phylogenetic analyses of the internal transcribed spacer region (ITS2) and large subunit rDNA (28S) recovered a monophyletic Spirorchis and the new species sister to Spirorchis collinsi Roberts & Bullard, 2016.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Systematic parasitology

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Roberts, J. R., Warren, M. B., Halanych, K. M., & Bullard, S. A. (2019). Spirorchis spp. (Digenea: Schistosomatoidea) infecting map turtles (Cryptodira: Emydidae: Graptemys spp.) in southeastern North America: A new species, molecular phylogenies, and key to species. Systematic parasitology, 96 (1), 51-64. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-018-9831-z

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