Belousova Y.V., Tatonova Y.V.
В журнале Russian Journal of Marine Biology
Год: 2022 Том: 48 Номер: 1 Страницы: 48–54
Larval trematode that infecting the gastropod Tritia mutabilis (Nassariisae) in natural beds of the Neapolitan Gulf (off Campania, Pozzuoli) was characterized moleculary. Main features of ophthalmotrichocercous cercariae obtained in this study were a most similar to the previously identified cercariae of the family Lepocreadiidae. Based on molecular data, this parasite can be also attributed to this family, and was named here Lepocreadiidae gen. sp. 1. The cox1 gene sequences did not match sequences from other represenatives of the family, and the phylogenetic trees based on ITS2 had unresolved topology. According to the molecular analysis based on the 28S rRNA gene, the sequences for cercariae obtained were closer to the species of the genera Opechona, Prodistomum Linton, 1910, Clavogalea Bray, 1985) and Preptetos Pritchard, 1960, but cluster, which uncluded these representatives, requires revision using both morphological and molecular data.
