Proteocephalus midoriensis Shimazu 1990
Creators: name: Tomáš Scholz
name: De Chambrier, Alain
name: Shimazu, Takeshi
name: Ermolenko, Alexey
name: Waeschenbach, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Cestoda
Proteocephalidea
Proteocephalidae
Proteocephalus
Proteocephalus midoriensis

description: <i>3.2.2. Proteocephalus midoriensis <b>Shimazu, 1990</b></i> <i>Fig. 3</i> <i>Taxonomic summary</i> <i>Type host</i>: <i>Lefua echigonia</i> Jordan and Richardson, 1907 (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae). <i>Other host</i>: <i>Lefua costata</i> (Kessler, 1876) (new host record — see Remarks). <i>Site of infection</i>: Intestine. <i>Type locality</i>: Midori, Iiyama City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan (36̊53′ N, 138̊21′ E). <i>Type material</i>: National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan (formerly National Science Museum, Tokyo; holotype — NSMT-P 1 3658; paratypes – NSMT-P 1 3642 and 3652– 3661). <i>Distribution</i>: Palaearctic Asia (Japan — Nagano and Shiga Prefectures, Primorsky Region of Russia — new geographical record). <i>Selected references</i>: Shimazu (1990) [19], Hypša et al. (2005) [10], Scholz et al. (2007) [11]. <i>Remarks</i> The species was described by Shimazu [19] from specimens found in <i>L. echigonia</i> from a small river and small irrigation canals in the paddy field at Midori, Iiyama City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. In the present study, specimens from the type host and type locality were studied, which made it possible to supplement the original description with previously unreported measurements (see Table 2). In addition, the number of proglottids was counted (30–35 in total, with 19–30 immature, only 1 mature and 6–11 pregravid; gravid proglottids, i.e. those with eggs containing fully formed hexacanth larvae, were not observed) and uterine development of type 2 of de Chambrier et al. (2004; see below and [9]) was observed. As in <i>P. misgurni</i>, which is newly described here from <i>M. anguillicaudatus</i> (see below), the proglottids of <i>P. midoriensis</i> are longer than wide except for the first immature ones — Fig.3 C (versus wider than long or rectangular in <i>P.sagittus</i> and <i>P.demshini</i>, which is newly described here from <i>B. toni</i> [see below]), the cirrus-sac is ovoid to almost spherical — Fig. 3 E (versus pyriform to elongate), and the vitelline follicles form a narrow lateral band composed of few (usually 1 or 2) follicles — Fig. 3 C–E (versus wide bands composed of several follicles at the same level in both species from <i>Barbatula</i> spp.), which may overlap the ovary on its ventral side — Fig. 3 D (only exceptionally some follicles overlap the ovarian lobes in the other species). Unlike <i>P. misgurni</i>, the ovary of <i>P. midoriensis</i> is large, with very wide (high), but short (horizontally) lateral wings, and a considerable part of the ovary (up to its half-length) may be overlapped by the vitelline follicles ventrally (Fig. 3 C, D). The scolex of <i>P. midoriensis</i> is similar to that of <i>P. misgurni</i> (Fig. 5 C), but it is less conspicuously widened at its apical part, and suckers are smaller in relation to the scolex width (Fig. 3 A; Table 2). Tapeworms from <i>L. costata</i>, collected by the late N.I. Demshin and designated by him as ‘ <i>Proteocephalus</i> sp. n. ’, were found to be indistinguishable from those of <i>P. midoriensis</i> from congeneric fish hosts and are considered conspecific, even though the quality of all specimens is poor due to their <i>post mortem</i> decomposition and improper fixation by strong flattening (Fig. 3 B).
description: Published as part of <i>Tomáš Scholz, Alain de Chambrier, Takeshi Shimazu, Alexey Ermolenko &amp; Andrea Waeschenbach, 2017, Proteocephalid tapeworms (Cestoda: Onchoproteocephalidea) of loaches (Cobitoidea): Evidence for monophyly and high endemism of parasites in the Far East, pp. 871-883 in Parasitology International 66</i> on page 875, DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2016.09.0161383-5769, http://zenodo.org/record/886409