Discovery of a New Genus and Species of Allocreadiidae (Trematoda) in Mexico: Mesoamericatrema Magnisacculus n. Gen. n. Sp.

ABSTRACT: The trematodes of Allocreadiidae are mainly parasites of freshwater fish and the family contains 18 valid genera. Since 2004, 4 genera have been described in the Americas: Paracreptotrema, Paracreptotrematoides, Pseudoparacreptotrema and Auriculostoma, of which the latter was recently synonymized with Creptotrema by Franceschini et al., (2021). During a study in 2018 on fish parasites of Lacantún River, Chiapas, Mexico, allocreadiids were collected from the intestine of Atherinella alvarezi and morphological differences with other genera of the family were immediately noted. These differences were corroborated with molecular data and phylogenetic analyses, which indicated that it was a new genus and species. The objective of this study is to descri

SUBMITTER: Mendoza-Garfias B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9831523 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature