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The life cycle of Hexangium sigani Goto & Ozaki, 1929 (Digenea: Microscaphidiidae) from the Red Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2015

R.M. El-Said Hassanine ,
D.A. Al-Zahrani ,
H. El-S. Touliabah  and
E.M. Youssef
R.M. El-Said Hassanine*
Affiliation:
Biological Sciences Department, Rabigh-Faculty of Science and Arts, King Abdulaziz University, PO Box 344, Rabigh21911, Saudi Arabia Department of Zoology, New Valley-Faculty of Science, Assiut University, El-Kharga, New Valley, Egypt
D.A. Al-Zahrani
Affiliation:
Biological Sciences Department, Rabigh-Faculty of Science and Arts, King Abdulaziz University, PO Box 344, Rabigh21911, Saudi Arabia
H. El-S. Touliabah
Affiliation:
Biological Sciences Department, Rabigh-Faculty of Science and Arts, King Abdulaziz University, PO Box 344, Rabigh21911, Saudi Arabia
E.M. Youssef
Affiliation:
Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University, Egypt
*
*E-mail: redaaa2003@yahoo.com
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Abstract

The microscaphidiid Hexangium sigani Goto & Ozaki, 1929 was found in the intestine of Siganus rivulatus, a siganid fish permanently resident in a lagoon within the mangrove swamps on the Egyptian coast of the Gulf of Aqaba. Intra-molluscan stages of this trematode (mother sporocysts, rediae and cercariae) were found in the gonads and digestive gland of Nassarius pullus (Gastropoda: Nassariidae), a common snail in the same lagoon. Consequently, the life cycle of H. sigani was elucidated under natural conditions: eggs are directly ingested by the snail; mother sporocysts and rediae reach maturity 5–7 and 16–17 weeks post-infection; rediae contain 18–26 developing cercariae; fully developed cercariae are monostome, without penetration glands, emerge from the snail during the night 18–19 weeks post-infection and rapidly encyst on aquatic vegetation (there is no second intermediate host); encysted metacercariae are not progenetic; 2-day-old metacercariae encysted on filamentous algae fed to S. rivulatus developed into fully mature worms 5–6 weeks post-infection. The cycle was completed in about 24 weeks. The intra-molluscan stages are very similar to those of Dictyangium chelydrae Stunkard, 1943, the only described intra-molluscan stages of any microscaphidiid. However, they are also similar to those of the family Mesometridae. The present study of H. sigani describes the first complete microscaphidiid life cycle, and implicitly supports the phylogenetic relationship of this family with the Mesometridae inferred from molecular phylogenetic studies.

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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 90 , Issue 5 , September 2016 , pp. 539 - 546
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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