A new species of Argulus (Crustacea, Branchiura, Argulidae) from the skin of catfish, with new records of branchiurans from wild fish in the Brazilian Pantanal wetland
Author
Tavares, Luiz E. R.
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Zootaxa
2017
2017-09-18
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Dolops longicauda
(
Heller, 1857
)
(
Figure 11
)
Gyropeltis longicauda
HELLER, 1857
HELLER (1857)
: 101
–102, PL. I, fIGS. 1–19;
Gyropeltis doradis
,
CORNALIA, 1860
:
CORNALIA (1860)
: 13
–14, fIGS. 1–18;
G. longicauda
:
KRøyER (1863)
: 25
–28, PL. I, fIGS. 4A–E;
G. longicauda
AND
G. doradis
:
THORELL (1864)
: 64
;
D. longicauda
AND
Dolops doradis
:
BOUVIER (1899)
: 13
, 21–35, fIGS. 31–38;
D. longicauda
AND
D. doradis
:
WILSON (1902)
: 704
, 732–733, 734, PL. XV, fIGS. 75–76;
D. longicauda
:
THIELE (1904)
: 14
–17, fIGS. 16–25;
MOREIRA (1912)
: 149
, PL. III, fIG. 3;
MOREIRA (1913)
: 10
, PL. V, fIG. 1;
LAHILLE (1926)
: 11
, fIGS. 8–9; LEMOS DE CASTRO (1985): 12, 56;
THATcHER (2006)
: 393
, 396, 400, fIG. 9.25.
Type
host.
Hydrocyon brevidens
(=
Salminus brasiliensis
[Cuvier 1816]) (
Heller 1857
)
Type
locality.
FLONA
de Ipanema
,
Sorocaba
River
Basin, municipality of Iperó, region of Sorocaba, state of
São Paulo
,
Brazil
(see remarks)
Other hosts and localities.
Aequidens tetramerus
(Heckel, 1840)
, Limoncocha, near the junction of the Jivino and
Napo
rivers,
Ecuador
(
Hugghins 1970
), Igarapé Fortaleza, Amazon River Basin, Macapá,
Amapá
,
Brazil
(Tavares-Dias
et al.
2014);
S. brasiliensis
(syn.
S. brevidens
,
S. maxillosus
,
Salminus cuvieri
,
H. brevidens
),
Province
Entre Rios
in
Parana
River Basin, Arroyo de las Conchas, Corpus, Rio Colastiné,
Santa Fé
, Zona de Rosario, in
Uruguay
River Basin, Gualeguaychú, Ibicuycito, Missiones, in de la Plata River,
Argentina
(
NMNH
2014;
Ringuelet 1943
,
1948
),
Paraguay
River, Corumba, Cáceres, state of
Mato Grosso
, Pirassununga, Mogi Guaçu River state of
São Paulo
,
Brazil
(
Calman 1912
; Morais Filho & Schubart 1955;
Moreira 1912
,
1913
);
Metynnis lippincottianus
(Cope, 1870)
, Igarapé Fortaleza, Amazon River Basin, Macapá,
Amapá
,
Brazil
(Tavares- Dias
et al.
2014);
Oxydoras kneri
Bleeker, 1862 (
Ringuelet 1943
)
;
Oxydoras niger
(Valenciennes, 1821)
, Amazon River Basin,
Brazil
(
Bouvier 1899
;
Thatcher 2006
);
Potamotrygon
sp.,
Santa Fe
Province
,
Parana
River, Rosario,
Argentina
(
Ringuelet 1948
);
P. corruscans
,
Santa Fe
Province
,
Parana
River, Rosario,
Argentina
(
Ringuelet 1948
);
Pterodoras granulosus
(Valenciennes, 1821) (
Ringuelet 1943
)
;
S. maculatus
, Caiçara
bays, upper
Paraguay
River basin, Northern Pantanal, Cáceres, state of
Mato Grosso
,
Brazil
(
Fontana
et al.
2012);
Serrasalmus nattereri
(=
P. nattereri
),
Parana
River, zona de Rosario,
Argentina
(
Ringuelet 1943
);
Serrasalmus
sp., Limoncocha, near the junction of the Jivino and
Napo
rivers,
Ecuador
(
Hugghins 1970
).
FIGURE 11.
FEMALE Of
Dolops longicauda
. A fIRST (A1) AND SEcOND (A2) B MOUTH TUbE (LAbI: LAbIUM; LAbR: LAbRUM; M: MANDIbLES) C SEcOND MAXILLAE (SE: SENSILLUM; S1–4: SEGMENTS) D fIfTH (S5) AND SIXTH (S6) SEGMENTS Of THE SEcOND MAXILLAE ANTENNAE E SETA-LIKE STRUcTURE (SLS) IN THE fIRTS MAXILLAE F ANAL PAPILLAE (VENTRAL VIEW). ScALE bAR = A 0.5MM, B–C 0.25MM, D– F 0.1MM
Material deposited.
21 vouchers:
5 adult
female and
5 adult
male
ZUEC-CRU
3518,
5 adult
female and
2 adult
male
INPA
2309,
6 July 2008
;
2 adult
females and
2 adult
males
MZUSP
36231,
8 July 2009
, in ethanol 70%,
Salminus brasiliensis
, skin, Cuiabá River Cuiabá River, Parque Nacional do Pantanal Matogrossense,
Mato Grosso
,
Brazil
(
17°49′37.77″ S
,
57°22′53.38”W
)
Measurements.
Based on
6 males
and
18 females
. Total length (mm) 20.2 (13.5–25) in males, 22 (11.2–36.5) in females. Carapace length 7.7 (5.6–9.3) in males, 8.8 (5.7–13.7) in females; maximum carapace width 7.9 (4.6– 10) in males, 9.4 (6.1–15) in females. Carapace posterior sinus length 2.2 (1.1–3.3) in males, 3.2 (1.5–4.9) in females; width 2.2 (1.7–2.8) in males, 3.3 (1.8–6) in females. Cephalothorax length 4.7 (2.6–5.8) in males, 5.1 (3.1–8.2) in females; anterior width 4.6 (2.6–5.6) in males, 5.2 (4.3–7.3) in females. Abdome length 13.9 (9.6–18) in males, 12.9 (8.9–22) in females; width 3.3(2.1–3.9) in males, 3.8 (2.7–6) in females. Abdome posterior sinus length 11.8 (8.5–13.8) in males, 12.4 (4.7–20) in females; width 2.4 (1–3.4) in males, 2.8 (0.4–7.8). Eyes diameter (µm) left 274.5 (225–289) and right 283.4 (200–350), in male, left 267.8 (224–300) and right 278.4 (212–350) in female; transverse distance between eyes (µm) 2156.7 (
1850–2768
) in male, 2377.5 (1400–3651) in female. First maxillae length 2 (0.9–2.9) left and 2 (1–3) right in males, 2 (1.1–4.2) left and 2.3 (1.3–4.5) right in females; Hook of the first maxillae length (µm) 1072.5 (875–1300) left and 1156.6 (825–1300) right in males, 1281 (836.6–1450) left and 1366.5 (
1019–1900
) in females. Seta-like structure length (µm) 151 (129–178, n = 4) left and 170.8 (118.8–198, n = 4) right in males, 186.5 (138.6–243, n = 16) left and 201.7 (158.4–297, n = 16) right in females.
Remarks.
The first and second antennae of
D. longicauda
are located in a groove in the cephalon, as others species of
Dolops
(Avenant
et al.
1989; Silva-Souza
et al.
2011). Nevertheless, the first antennae of
D. longicauda
is 4-segmented (
Fig. 11A
), a characteristic shared with some South American species of
Dolops
. The basal segment of the first antennae of
D. longicauda
does not have any projections or spines, being bar-shaped with expanded ends, which
Ringuelet (1943)
described as “…un refuerzo o rodete no saliente cerca del borde posterior…”. The proximal part of the second segment also does not have any projections or spines, similar to what we observed in
D. carvalhoi
. The labrum (
Fig. 11B
) in mouth tube in
D. longicauda
, and probably other species of the genus, arise anteriorly, deeper than in species of
Argulus
. The second maxillae of
D. longicauda
is 6-segmented (
Fig. 11C
). The sixth segment bears five pairs of hooks or claws (
Fig. 11D
), with the distal one the larger. These decrease proximally, so that the most proximal resemble spines.
Heller (1857)
described
D
.
longicauda
when he proposed
Gyropeltis
Heller, 1857
, later synonymized with
Dolops
by
Bouvier (1899)
. Before Bouvier’s observations,
Krøyer (1863)
, examined the
type
specimen, a female deposited by Vincent Kollar at the Natural History Museum of Vienna, as “
Dixiphurus brasiliensis
”
. An additional note on the
type
specimen in Johann Natterer's iternary revealed the old “Fábrica de Ferro São João do Ipanema” or Fundição Ipanema, nowadays a national forest known as FLONA de Ipanema, in the municipality of Iperó in the region of Sorocaba, in the state of
São Paulo
, as the
type
locality for this species (Peter C. Dworschak, pers. comm.
March 2015
). In this note by Natterer, a river called “Seruaba” was mentioned as the hydrographic system where the
type
specimen was recovered. Although we could not identify this river, it is probable that the Sorocaba River is the hydrographic basin of the
type
locality.
The morphology, the length and especially the length of the abdomen of the specimens of
D. longicauda
, made its diagnosis easier. Additionally, there is a structure similar to an additional flagella on the second leg of the male, inserted in the dorsal side of the coxa and laterally directed, which
Ringuelet (1943)
also indicated, removing any doubts about the identification of
D. longicauda
.