{"title":"A New Species of <i>Branchellion</i> (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) Parasitizing the Gills of Short-Tail Stingrays (Batoidea: Dasyatidae) from the West Pacific.","authors":"Naoto Jimi, Junpei Shinji, Natsumi Hookabe, Masanori Okanishi, Sau Pinn Woo, Takafumi Nakano","doi":"10.2108/zs220057","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A new fish leech, <i>Branchellion brevicaudatae</i> sp. n., is described based on specimens parasitizing the gills of the short-tail stingray, <i>Bathytoshia brevicaudata</i> (Hutton, 1875), collected from Japanese waters. The new species can be distinguished from other congeners by having: i) pulsating vesicles emerging from posterior base of branchiae, one pair per somite; ii) dorsal white spots, not arranged in longitudinal row; and iii) blackish body. A phylogenetic tree based on partial sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome <i>c</i> oxidase subunit I gene from the new species and other piscicolid worms showed that the new species is sister to <i>Branchellion torpedinis</i> Savigny, 1822. This is the first record of <i>Branchellion</i> Savigny, 1822 from Japanese waters.</p>","PeriodicalId":24040,"journal":{"name":"Zoological Science","volume":"40 4","pages":"308-313"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Zoological Science","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2108/zs220057","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ZOOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A new fish leech, Branchellion brevicaudatae sp. n., is described based on specimens parasitizing the gills of the short-tail stingray, Bathytoshia brevicaudata (Hutton, 1875), collected from Japanese waters. The new species can be distinguished from other congeners by having: i) pulsating vesicles emerging from posterior base of branchiae, one pair per somite; ii) dorsal white spots, not arranged in longitudinal row; and iii) blackish body. A phylogenetic tree based on partial sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene from the new species and other piscicolid worms showed that the new species is sister to Branchellion torpedinis Savigny, 1822. This is the first record of Branchellion Savigny, 1822 from Japanese waters.
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Zoological Science is published by the Zoological Society of Japan and devoted to publication of original articles, reviews and editorials that cover the broad field of zoology. The journal was founded in 1984 as a result of the consolidation of Zoological Magazine (1888–1983) and Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses (1897–1983), the former official journals of the Zoological Society of Japan. Each annual volume consists of six regular issues, one every two months.
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