First report on cystacanths of Emphasis Type='Italic'>Sphaerirostris lanceoides/Emphasis> (Petrochenko, 1949) (Acanthocephala: Centrorhynchidae) from the Asiatic toad Emphasis Type='Italic'>Bufo gargarizans/Emphasis> Cantor (Amphibia: Anura) in China

摘要

Everted cystacanths of Sphaerirostris lanceoides (Petrochenko, 1949) Golvan 1956 are reported from the Asiatic toad Bufo gargarizans Cantor (Amphibia: Anura) for the first time. The prevalence was 1.96% and the intensity ranged between 1.0–3.0 acanthocephalans. SEM observations revealed the morphology of the gonopore and the presence of a flat, bare region on the apical part of the proboscis. Moreover, S. lanceoides was characterised using molecular approaches by sequencing the ribosomal ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 region and the mitochondrial cox 1 gene. The resulting ITS sequences were identical and the cox 1 sequences showed a divergence of 0–0.75%. Sphaerirostris lanceoides is the first species of the genus for which the ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 and cox 1 loci have been sequenced to aid species identification.