Gonocephalum pusillum (Fabricius, 1791)
|
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.37828/em.2024.73.3 |
|
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A509626D-FFB0-FFA7-FF24-FE80FC3739A9 |
|
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
|
scientific name |
Gonocephalum pusillum (Fabricius, 1791) |
| status |
|
Hosts: Gonocephalum pusillum (Fabricius, 1791) .
Habitat: intestine.
Description: Gamont is biassociative. The total length can reach more than 1200 µm. The shape of protomerite resembles a slightly flattened ellipse. Deutomerite is long, cylindrical, and rounded at the end. The nucleus is spherical and contains a single caryosome. Morphological traits of gamonts are presented in Table 2.
Extensiveness and intensity of infestation: The average extensiveness of G. pusillum infestation by this species of gregarine was 19.3%. The maximum total number of gregarine gamonts of this species in the body of one individual G. pusillum was 9.
Literature records: The morphological features of this species are described in detail by Théodoridès (1955a, 1958), Tuzet and Ormières (1956). The species is recorded in Gonocephalum rusticum , G. controversum , G. prolixum , G. simplex , G. moluccanum , G. patruele , Mesomorphus setosus , Tentyria taurica and Taraxides laevigatus .
General distribution: France ( Théodoridès 1955a; Tuzet & Ormieres 1956), Turkey ( Théodoridès 1958), Ethiopia ( Théodoridès et al. 1964), Sudan ( Théodoridès et al. 1965), Gabon ( Théodoridès et al. 1976), Cabo Verde ( Théodoridès & Jolivet 1987).
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.