Anoplocephaloides dentata
Creators: name: Haukisalmi, Voitto
name: Henttonen, Heikki
name: Hardman, Lotta
name: Hardman, Michael
name: Laakkonen, Juha
name: Murueva, Galina
name: Niemimaa, Jukka
name: Shulunov, Stanislav
name: Vapalahti, Olli
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Cestoda
Cyclophyllidea
Anoplocephalidae
Anoplocephaloides
Anoplocephaloides dentata

description: <i>Anoplocephaloides</i> cf. <i>dentata</i> (Galli-Valerio, 1905) The names <i>Paranoplocephala dentata</i> (Galli-Valerio, 1905), <i>Anoplocephaloides dentata</i> (Galli-Valerio, 1905) and <i>Paranoplocephala brevis</i> Kirshenblat, 1938 have been variously used for small, wedge-shaped cestodes parasitizing voles of the genera <i>Microtus</i> and <i>Chionomys</i> Miller (and occasionally other hosts) in the Palaearctic region. The position of <i>A. dentata</i> within the genus <i>Anoplocephaloides</i> Baer, 1923, as suggested by Rausch (1976), has been generally accepted. Following Spasskii (1951), <i>P. brevis</i> has been consistently regarded as a junior synonym of <i>A. dentata</i>. Thus, all <i>A. dentata</i> -like cestodes in the Palaearctic voles have been considered a single species, with the exception of <i>Anoplocephaloides dentatoides</i> Sato, Kamiya, Tenora &amp; Kamiya, 1993 from <i>Myodes rufocanus</i> from Hokkaido, Japan (see Sato et al. 1993). A recent molecular phylogenetic analysis (Haukisalmi et al. 2009) suggested that <i>A. dentata</i> -like cestodes include at least five species (plus <i>A. dentatoides</i>) in the Holarctic region: four species in western Eurasia and one in the rest of Eurasia and Beringia (north-eastern Siberia and Alaska). Based on the cytochrome oxidase I (mtDNA) sequences, the <i>A. dentata</i> -like cestodes from Buryatia (hosts <i>Myodes rufocanus</i> and <i>Microtus fortis</i>) group strongly, and are therefore conspecific, with the Holarctic species (Haukisalmi et al. 2009). However, it is not yet known if this Holarctic species is conspecific with either of the two related species described in North America, i.e. <i>Anoplocephaloides infrequens</i> (Douthitt, 1915) and <i>A. troeschi</i> (Rausch, 1946) from <i>Geomys bursarius</i> (Shaw) (Geomyidae) and <i>Microtus pennsylvanicus</i> (Ord), respectively. In the Palaearctic, <i>A. dentata</i> -like cestodes are characteristically parasites of voles of the genera <i>Microtus</i> and <i>Chionomys</i>. However, in addition to <i>Microtus gregalis</i> (Pallas), <i>M. maximowiczii</i> and <i>M. oeconomus</i>, Machul’skii (1958) and Zhaltsanova (1992) reported <i>P. brevis</i> or <i>P. dentata</i> from <i>Myodes rufocanus</i>, <i>M. rutilus</i>, <i>Apodemus peninsulae</i> and <i>Cricetulus barabensis</i> in Buryatia. In the present study, <i>A.</i> cf. <i>dentata</i> was found from <i>Microtus fortis</i> and <i>Myodes rufocanus</i>. It is probable that all <i>A. dentata</i> -like cestodes in Buryatia represent a single species, with the occurrences in <i>Myodes</i>, <i>Apodemus</i> and <i>Cricetulus</i> being accidental. Because there are few morphological features useful for the diagnosis of <i>A. dentata</i> - like cestodes, sequence data (COI, 28S rRNA) have proved to be necessary tools in the taxonomy of this species complex (Haukisalmi et al. 2009). <i>Anoplocephaloides</i> cf. <i>dentata</i> was significantly more prevalent in Nesteriha (23%) than in the other study sites (0-6%) (Table 1). Voucher specimen: MSB Endo 152 from <i>Microtus fortis</i> (Nesteriha).
description: Published as part of <i>Haukisalmi, Voitto, Henttonen, Heikki, Hardman, Lotta, Hardman, Michael, Laakkonen, Juha, Murueva, Galina, Niemimaa, Jukka, Shulunov, Stanislav &amp; Vapalahti, Olli, 2009, Review of tapeworms of rodents in the Republic of Buryatia, with emphasis on anoplocephalid cestodes, pp. 1-18 in ZooKeys 8 (8)</i> on pages 5-7, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.8.58, http://zenodo.org/record/576440
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