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Cairaeanthus ruhnkei Kornyushin & Polyakova, 2012
Rhinebothriidea: Anthocephaliidae
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Cestode Scientific Name

Species ID 12910
Order Rhinebothriidea
Family Anthocephaliidae
Subfamily
Genus Cairaeanthus
Species ruhnkei
Authority Kornyushin & Polyakova, 2012
Taxonomic Status Valid
Valid Name
Synonyms
Genus Record No
Type Species Yes
Verified No
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Citation(s)

Kornyushin, V. V. and T. A. Polyakova. 2012. Cairaeanthus gen. n. (Cestoda, Rhinebothriidea), with the Description of Two New Species from Dasyatis pastinaca in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Vestnik zoologii 46(4): e-1—e-18.

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Scientific Name Notes

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
09/17/2014 Created A. Makarikov
03/04/2015Modified
10/09/2015ModifiedB. Barbeau
01/15/2016ModifiedJ. Caira

Type Host

Host Class
Host Order Myliobatiformes
Host Family Dasyatidae
Type Host
(Literal)
Genus Dasyatis
Species pastinaca
Subspecies
Type Host
(Valid)
Genus Dasyatis
Species pastinaca
Subspecies
Additional Host(s)
Site in Host spiral intestine
Host Notes

Type Locality

Country Russia
Body of Water Black Sea
Island(s)
City/Region Karantinnaya Bay, Sevastopol
Coordinates
DD Latitude 44°36.41'N
DD Longitude 33°29.54'E
Additional Localities Black Sea (off Sevastopol, Streletskaya and Martynova Bay; off the cape Sarych and Phoros; Karkinitskiy Bay; the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, Yagorlytskiy Bay; water area of Karadag Nature Reserve; Kerch Channel) and the Sea of Azov (Obitochny Bay)
Locality Notes

Specimens

Type Material holotype N. 186.002.32 (06.11.2003; 1349/157; spiral valve N 17; 1 specimen; Karantinnaya Bay, Sevastopol, the Black Sea; IBSS, DEP; coll. T. A. Po lyakova) and paratypes C. 177.002.19 (11.09.2003; 1154/146; spiral valve N 8; 1 specimen; Streletskaya Bay, Sevastopol, the Black Sea; IBSS, DEP; coll. T. A. Polyakova), N. 178.002.20 (11.09.2003; 1154/147; spiral valve N 18; 1 spe cimen; Streleckaya bay, Sevastopol, the Black Sea; IBSS, DEP; coll. T. A. Polyakova), N. 179.002.21 (11.09.2003;1154/148; spiral valve N 15; 1 specimen; Streleckaya Bay, Sevastopol, the Black Sea; IBSS, DEP; coll. T. A. Polyakova), C. 199.002.47 (29.09.2005; 2297/165; spiral valve N 11; 1 specimen; Karantinnaya Bay, Sevastopol, the Black Sea; IBSS, DEP; coll. T. A. Polyakova), N. 206.002.67 (29.09.2005; 2297/166; spiral valve N 14; 1 specimen; Karantinnaya Bay, Sevastopol, the Black Sea; IBSS, DEP; coll. T. A. Polyakova) ex D. pastinaca from the Black Sea. Additional paratypes CP 35.1 and CP 35.2 (04.07.1977; mk 12; Black Sea, Biosphere Reserve, Yagorlytskiy Bay; Institute of Zoology; coll. V. V. Kornyushin) ex D. pastinaca from the Black Sea.
Total Number of Type Specimens holotype, 5 paratypes
Voucher Material 24 specimens from D. pastinaca in the Black Sea and 6 specimens from the same host in the Sea of Azov
Specimen Notes IBSS, DEP (collection of the Department of Ecological Parasitology, Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas NASU, Sevastopol). CP (collection of the Department of Parasitology, I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, NASU, Kyiv).
Data are given as in original description unless otherwise indicated.