Acanthocephalans from freshwater fishes in northeast Thailand with the description of a new species of the subgenus <i>Acanthosentis</i> Verma & Dutta, 1929 (Acanthocephala, Quadrigyridae).

ABSTRACT: During an ichthyoparasitological survey in northeast Thailand in 2015, four species of acanthocephalans were found in four species of freshwater fishes. Adult stages of Pallisentisrexus Wongkham & Whitfield, 1999 and Raosentis sp. (Eoacanthocephala, Quadrigyridae) were collected from Channastriata (Anabantiformes, Channidae) and Mystusmysticetus (Siluriformes, Bagridae), respectively, and cystacanths of Arhythmorhynchus sp. (Palaeacanthocephala, Polymorphidae) were found on the visceral organs of M.albolineatus (Siluriformes, Bagridae). Adult acanthocephalans of the subgenus Acanthosentis Verma & Dutta, 1929 isolated from Barbonymusschwanenfeldii (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae) were morphologically distinct from all described species of the subg

SUBMITTER: Lisitsyna O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11986430 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature