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The Pacific Notocotylus atlanticus (Digenea: Notocotylidae)
Anna Gonchar1, Kirill V Galaktionov1
1Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya emb., 7-9, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia; Laboratory of Parasitic Worms and Protists, Zoological Institute RAS, Universitetskaya emb., 1, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia.
Abstract:
Recently two unidentified Notocotylus species have been recovered from a mallard in Hokkaido, Japan. Preliminary data indicated that one of them may belong to N. atlanticus-a species found in Europe and on the Atlantic coast of North America. Now we have sequenced partial cox1 for several European N. atlanticus isolates and performed a barcode gap analysis. It has shown the conspecificity of European and Japanese worms, bringing up discussion on distribution, transmission and host specificity in this species.
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