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The taxonomic and phylogenetic status of digeneans from the genus Timoniella (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae) in the Black and Baltic seas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2017

Y. Kvach ,
A. Bryjová ,
P. Sasal  and
H.M. Winkler
Y. Kvach*
Affiliation:
Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Květná 8, 60365 Brno, Czech Republic Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic Institute of Marine Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Pushkinska 37, 65011 Odessa, Ukraine
A. Bryjová
Affiliation:
Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Květná 8, 60365 Brno, Czech Republic
P. Sasal
Affiliation:
UMS 2978 CNRS – EPHE – UPVD Centre de Recherche Insulaire et Observatoire de l'Environnement (CRIOBE), Papetoai, Moorea, French Polynesia Labex CORAIL, BP 1013–98 729, Papetoai, Moorea, French Polynesia
H.M. Winkler
Affiliation:
Institut für Biowissenschaften/Zoologie, Universität Rostock, Universitätsplatz 2, 18055 Rostock, Germany
*
Author for correspondence: Y. Kvach, E-mail: yuriy.kvach@gmail.com
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Abstract

Timoniella spp. are cryptogonimid flukes (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae) that parasitize the guts of fish in brackish waters. Timoniella imbutiforme, a species from the Mediterranean Sea, is recorded in the Black Sea, while T. balthica has been described from the Baltic Sea. In this paper, we clarify the taxonomic status of Timoniella populations in the Baltic and Black seas. Adults and metacercariae of Timoniella spp. were sampled from localities in the Mediterranean Sea (France), Black Sea (Ukraine) and Baltic Sea (Germany) and subjected to molecular and morphological analysis, including Bayesian phylogenetic reconstruction based on concatenated sequences of ITS1–ITS2–28S. This allowed us to construct a new key to species of the genus Timoniella. Our results suggest that T. balthica forms part of the Boreal–Atlantic relict fauna of the Black Sea and should now be considered a junior synonym of T. imbutiforme.

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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 92 , Issue 5 , September 2018 , pp. 596 - 603
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