Paradiplozoon cirrhini n. sp. (Monogenea, Diplozoidae), a gill parasite of Cirrhinus molitorella (Cyprinidae, Labeoninae) in South China.

ABSTRACT: Paradiplozoon cirrhini n. sp. (Monogenea, Diplozoidae) is described from the gills of mud carp, Cirrhinus molitorella (Valenciennes, 1844) (Cyprinidae, Labeoninae), collected in Wuzhou, Guangxi Province, and Conghua, Guangdong Province as part of an ongoing survey of the diplozoid fauna in the Pearl River basin of China. The new Paradiplozoon species is distinguished from congeners by the structure of median plate and its outgrowth sclerites. The ITS2 sequences of the new species differ from all known available diplozoid sequences by 22.04%-38.34%. The new species is the first diplozoid species parasitic on Labeoninae in China. Molecular phylogenetic analyses using rRNA ITS2 placed Paradiplozoon cirrhini n. sp. in a sister position to the other Chinese Paradiplozoon, implying that Labeonin

SUBMITTER: Huang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10246675 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature