Morphological and molecular characterisation of Tripylina gorganensis from the Slovak Republic as a contribution to the redescription of the species

Marek Renčo; Katarzyna Rybarczyk-Mydłowska; Łukasz Flis; Magdalena Kubicz; Grażyna Winiszewska

doi:10.21307/jofnem-2021-048

Morphological and molecular characterisation of Tripylina gorganensis from the Slovak Republic as a contribution to the redescription of the species

J Nematol. 2021 Jun 23:53:1-10. doi: 10.21307/jofnem-2021-048. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Marek Renčo¹, Katarzyna Rybarczyk-Mydłowska², Łukasz Flis², Magdalena Kubicz², Grażyna Winiszewska²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Parasitology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Hlinkova 3, Košice, Slovak Republic.
² Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS, Wilcza 64, 00-679 Warsaw, Poland.

Abstract

Specimens of Tripylina gorganensis, collected from a natural beech forest in Slovak Republic, are described and illustrated. These nematodes were initially identified as an undescribed species, morphologically similar to Tripylina gorganensis described from Iran. An important feature distinguishing both species was the presence of post-vulval uterine sac (PUS) in specimens from Slovak Republic, which, according to the original description (Asghari et al., 2012), was absent in Tripylina gorganensis. However, a careful re-examination of type specimens performed in this study revealed that T. gorganensis also has the post-vulval uterine sac. Consequently, the findings of the morphological and molecular studies performed on the Slovak population and observations on the type material contribute to the redescription of T. gorganensis.

Keywords: Fagus sylvatica; Molecular; Morphology; Morphometrics; Phylogeny; Redescription; Ribosomal DNA; Taxonomy; Tripylina gorganensis.