Euterranova

Euterranova is a genus of parasitic nematodes that have life cycles involving elasmobranchs.[1] The genus was created in 2020 to accommodate species which were previously included inTerranova Leiper & Atkinson, 1914 [2] a taxon considered to be invalid.[1]

Euterranova
Euterranova dentiduplicata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Nematoda
Class:
Secernentea
Order:
Ascaridida
Family:
Anisakidae
Genus:
Euterranova

Species

Etymology

The name Euterranova is composed of Terranova (the name of a nematode genus) and the prefix Eu- (= proper, true).[1] The gender is feminine.

Species
Scanning electron microscope imges of Euterranova dentiduplicata

The type-species is E. dentiduplicata Moravec & Justine, 2020. It was described in 2020 from specimens from the stomach of the Zebra shark Stegostoma fasciatum, collected from off New Caledonia.

Other species are listed in the taxobox. All are parasites of elasmobranchs. An undescribed species (Euterranova sp.) was also recorded from the shark Triaenodon obesus off New Caledonia.[1]

See also

Neoterranova

References
  1. Moravec, František; Justine, Jean-Lou (2020). "Erection of Euterranova n. gen. and Neoterranova n. gen. (Nematoda, Anisakidae), with the description of E. dentiduplicata n. sp. and new records of two other anisakid nematodes from sharks off New Caledonia". Parasite. 27: 58. doi:10.1051/parasite/2020053. ISSN 1776-1042.
  2. Leiper RT, Atkinson EL. 1914. Helminths of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, pp. 222–226
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