A New Species ofSerendip(Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea: Serendipeidae) inRhinoptera steindachneri(Chondrichthyes: Myliobatidae) from the Pacific Coast of Mexico

Two new species of Acanthobothrium Blanchard, 1848 (Cestoda, Onchoproteocephalidea) from Urobatis jamaicensis (Cuvier, 1816) (Elasmobranchii, Batoidea, Myliobatiformes) of the Mexican Caribbean

“…For Digenea , Rodríguez-Ibarra et al (2011) and Zaragoza-Tapia et al (2013) . For Cestoda , Caira (1985a) , Monks et al (1996) , Caira and Zahner (2001) , Caira and Bruge (2001), Ghoshroy and Caira (2001) , Monks et al (2015b) , Monks et al (2015a) , Monks et al (2015c) , Rodríguez-Ibarra et al (2018) , Zaragoza-Tapia et al (2013) , Zaragoza-Tapia et al (2019) , and Zaragoza-Tapia et al (2020b) contributed new data.…”

Two new species of Acanthobothrium Blanchard, 1848 (Onchobothriidae) in Narcine entemedor Jordan & Starks, 1895 (Narcinidae) from Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico

“…Rays were transported to the laboratory (Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, Unidad Académica de Ecología Marina) in ice chests containing ice where the spiral intestine was removed and opened by longitudinal incision. Collection, preservation and mounting follow Monks et al (2015b). Stained specimens were examined using a compound photomicroscope (Leica DM-LB2) equipped with both normal light optics and differential interference contrast (DIC-Nomarski) optics.…”

Three new species of Duplicibothrium (Cestoda: ‘Tetraphyllidea’) from cownose rays in Senegal with a phylogenetic analysis of the genus

“…Monks et al (2015a) demonstrated that the bothridia of Glyphobothrium and all three described species of Duplicibothrium also bear apical suckers. This is in contrast to Serendip , both species of which bear bothridia that lack apical suckers (Brooks & Barriga, 1995; Monks et al , 2015b). In the absence of a rigorous phylogenetic analysis that includes representatives of all three genera, the most appropriate higher classification for these three genera remains unclear.…”

“…They established the family Serendipidae Brooks & Barriga, 1995 for that clade (a name later replaced by Serendipeidae Brooks & Evenhuis, 1995 [see Brooks & Evenhuis, 1995] to rectify a homonym). Monks et al (2015b) expanded Serendip beyond just Serendip deborahae Brooks & Barriga, 1995, to include Serendip danbrooksi Monks, Zaragoza-Tapia, Pulido-Flores, & Violante-Gozález, 2015. Monks et al (2015a) subsequently argued that morphological similarities between Glyphobothrium and Duplicibothrium justified erection of the family Glyphobothriidae Monks, Pulido-Flores, & Gardner, 2015 to contain these two genera.…”