Cucullanus bulbosus

Cucullanus bulbosus
	Cucullanus bulbosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Nematoda
Class:	Chromadorea
Order:	Rhabditida
Suborder:	Spirurina
Infraorder:	Ascaridomorpha
Superfamily:	Seuratoidea
Family:	Cucullanidae
Genus:	Cucullanus
Species:	C. bulbosus
Binomial name
	Cucullanus bulbosus; (Lane, 1916) Barreto, 1918
Synonyms
	Bulbodacnitis bulbosa Lane, 1916

Cucullanus bulbosus is a species of parasitic nematodes.[1][2] It is an endoparasite of carangid fishes.

Cucullanus bulbosus, scanning electron microscopy

In 1916, Lane [1] described a new cucullanid species, Bulbodacnitis bulbosa, from the bluefin trevally Caranx melampygus off Sri Lanka and established the new genus Bulbodacnitis to accommodate it, because he considered the presence of a dorsal hemispherical cephalic elevation in this species to be of generic importance. However, Barreto [2] considered Bulbodacnitis Lane, 1916 a junior synonym of Cucullanus O.F. Müller, 1777, to which he transferred Lane’s species.

Cucullanus bulbosus had not been recorded since its description by Lane in 1916, but it was found again only in 2016, one century after, from specimens collected in Carangoides fulvoguttatus off New Caledonia.[3] The 2016 study included the first scanning electron microscopy examination and confirmed some previously reported morphological features in this species, showed some new characters (presence of circumoral spines and ventral oblique muscle bands in the male) and provided observations of the cephalic structures and male caudal papillae.[3]

References

Lane, M. O. (1916). The genus Dacnitis Dujardin, 1845. Ind. J. med. Res. 93-104.
de Barreto, BAL. 1922. Revisão da familia Cucullanidae Barreto, 1916. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 14, 68–87. PDF
Moravec, František; Gey, Delphine; Justine, Jean-Lou (2016). "Nematode parasites of four species of Carangoides (Osteichthyes: Carangidae) in New Caledonian waters, with a description of Philometra dispar n. sp. (Philometridae)". Parasite. 23: 40. doi:10.1051/parasite/2016049. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 5018933. PMID 27615321.

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[Lane1916-1] Lane, M. O. (1916). The genus Dacnitis Dujardin, 1845. Ind. J. med. Res. 93-104.

[Barreto1922-2] Barreto, BAL. 1922. Revisão da familia Cucullanidae Barreto, 1916. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 14, 68–87. PDF

[MoravecGey2016-3] Moravec, František; Gey, Delphine; Justine, Jean-Lou (2016). "Nematode parasites of four species of Carangoides (Osteichthyes: Carangidae) in New Caledonian waters, with a description of Philometra dispar n. sp. (Philometridae)". Parasite. 23: 40. doi:10.1051/parasite/2016049. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 5018933. PMID 27615321.