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Studies on bucephalid digeneans parasitising molluscs and fishes in Finland. II. The description of Rhipidocotyle fennica n. sp. and its discrimination by principal components analysis

E. Tellervo ValtonenDavid I. GibsonJouni Taskinen

subject

biologyCampanulaEcologyAnimal ecologyChaetotaxyZoologyParasitologyTaxonomy (biology)TrematodaRutilusbiology.organism_classificationMolluscaEsox

description

Rhipidocotyle fennica n. sp. (= Rhipidocotyle Type A of Taskinen et al., 1991) from the intestine of Esox lucius in central Finland is described and compared by means of a principal components analysis (PCA) with R. campanula (= Rhipidocotyle Type B of Taskinen et al., 1991). Its cercaria develops in the bivalve Anodonta anatina and the metacercaria occurs in the skin and fins of Rutilus rutilus. The metacercaria is discriminated from that of R. campanula by PCA and is described along with aspects of the chaetotaxy of the cercaria. The new species is distinguished from R. campanula, R. kovalae, R. papillosa and R. septpapillata.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
1992-09-01Systematic Parasitology
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00008011