Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The morphology and systematic status of Khawia rossittensis (Szidat, 1937) and K. parva (Zmeev, 1936) (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea), parasites of cyprinid fishes

  • Published:
Systematic Parasitology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The morphology of the two little-known fish cestodes of the genus Khawia Hsü, 1935, K. rossittensis (Szidat, 1937) and K. parva (Zmeev, 1936) from cyprinid fishes, were studied on the basis of newly collected specimens from goldfish Carassius auratus auratus (L.) and museum specimens, respectively. This paper provides the first detailed species diagnosis for K. rossittensis from Slovakia, which is compared with specimens from different geographical regions and K. parva, a somewhat similar Far Eastern species from the same host. The two species differ in scolex morphology, anterior extent of the vitelline follicles, shape of the ovary and size of the eggs. Based on these differences, K. rossittensis and K. parva are considered to be separate taxa. K. parva, listed among the “species incertae sedis” by Mackiewicz (1972) and even within Caryophyllaeus Gmelin, 1790 by Schmidt (1986), should be considered a valid species of Khawia. The results support the previous conclusions of Kulakovskaya (1961), Dubinina (1971) and Protasova et al. (1990).

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Calentine, R. L., & Ulmer, M. J. (1961). Khawia iowensis n. sp. (Cestoda: Caryophyllaeidae) from Cyprinus carpio L. in Iowa. Journal of Parasitology, 47, 795–805.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Dubinina, M. N. (1971). Tapeworms of the Amur River basin. Parazitologicheskii Sbornik AN SSSR, 25, 77–119 (In Russian).

    Google Scholar 

  • Dubinina, M. N. (1987). Class Cestoda Rudolphi, 1808. In O. N. Bauer (Ed.), Key to the parasites of freshwater fishes (Vol 3, pp. 5–76). Leningrad: Nauka (In Russian).

    Google Scholar 

  • Fotedar, D. N. (1958). On a new caryophyllaeid cestode Adenoscolex oreini gen. et sp. nov. from freshwater fish in Kashmir, and a note on some related genera. Journal of Helminthology, 32, 1–16.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Gibson, D. I., & Valtonen, E. T. (1983). Two interesting records of tapeworms from Finnish waters. Aquilo, Ser. Zoologica, 22, 45–49.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kulakovskaya, O. P. (1961). On the fauna of the Caryophyllidae (Cestoda, Pseudophyllidea) of the USSR. Parazitologicheskiii Sbornik AN SSSR, 20, 339–354 (In Russian).

    Google Scholar 

  • Mackiewicz, J. S. (1972). Caryophyllidea (Cestoidea): a review. Experimental Parasitology, 31, 417–512.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Mackiewicz, J. S. (1982). Caryophyllidea (Cestoidea): perspectives. Parasitology, 84, 397–417.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mackiewicz, J. S. (1994). Order Caryophyllidea van Beneden in Carus, 1863. In L. F. Khalil, A. Jones, & R. A. Bray (Eds.), Keys to the cestode parasites of vertebrates (pp. 21–43). Wallingford: CAB International.

    Google Scholar 

  • Oros, M., Hanzelová, V., & Scholz, T. (2004). Conquest of Europe by the cestode Atractolytocestus huronensis (Caryophyllidea) continues: new data on dissemination of the helminth parasite of common carp. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 62, 115–119.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Protasova, E. P., Kuperman, B. I., Roitman, V. A., & Poddubnaya, L. G. (1990). Caryophyllid tapeworms of the fauna of USSR (pp. 237). Moscow: Nauka (In Russian).

    Google Scholar 

  • Scholz, T. (1989). Amphilinida and Cestoda, parasites of fish in Czechoslovakia. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Academiae Scientiarum Bohemoslovacae Brno, 23, 1–56.

    Google Scholar 

  • Scholz, T., Shimazu, T., Olson, P. D., & Nagasawa, K. (2001). Caryophyllidean tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Eucestoda) from freshwater fishes in Japan. Folia Parasitologica, 48, 275–288.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Schmidt, G. D. (1986). Handbook of tapeworm identification (pp. 675). Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Szidat, L. (1937). Über einige neue Caryophyllaeiden aus ostpreussischen Fischen. Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde, 9, 771–786.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yamaguti, S. (1959). Systema helminthum. Vol. II. The cestodes of vertebrates (pp. 860). New York, London: Interscience Publishers Inc.

  • Zmeev, G. Ya. (1936). Trematodes and cestodes of the Amur River. Parazitologicheskii Sbornik AN SSSR, 6, 305–346 (In Russian).

    Google Scholar 

  • Žitňan, R. (1966). Cestoidea and Trematoidea of fishes from the flowing waters of the Tisa River lowlands (Helminths of fishes of the Tisa River lowlands (Czechoslovakia). II). Biologia (Bratislava), 21, 763–770 (In Slovak).

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to: Dr F. Moravec, Institute of Parasitology AS CR, České Budějovice, Czech Republic and Dr A.K. Galkin, Institute of Zoology, St. Petersburg, Russia for providing museum material of Khawia spp. from the Ukraine, Belorussia and Russia; Dr G. Hrčková for help with preparation of histological sections; and Bc. L’. Burik for technical assistance in the field and the laboratory. The study was supported by the Grant Agency VEGA, project no. 2/7192/27 and partly by European Commission’s Research Infrastructure Action via the SYNTHESYS Project no. DE-TAF-127.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Parasitological Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Hlinkova 3, Košice, 04001, Slovakia

    Mikuláš Oros & Vladimíra Hanzelová

Authors
  1. Mikuláš Oros
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Vladimíra Hanzelová
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Vladimíra Hanzelová.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Oros, M., Hanzelová, V. The morphology and systematic status of Khawia rossittensis (Szidat, 1937) and K. parva (Zmeev, 1936) (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea), parasites of cyprinid fishes. Syst Parasitol 68, 129–136 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-007-9099-1

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-007-9099-1

Keywords

Search

Navigation