Peng Zhang, Ke Chen, Michaela Svobodova, Ting-Bao Yang, Julius Lukes, Jinyong Zhang, Zhao-Rong Lun, De-Hua Lai
Recently, based on a limited morphological characterisation and partial 18S rRNA gene sequence, Jiang et al. (2019) described Trypanosoma micropteri Jiang, Lu, Du, Wang, Hu, Su et Li, 2019 as a new pathogen of farmed fish. Here we provide evidence based on the expanded sequence dataset, morphology and experimental infections that this trypanosome does not warrant the establishment as a new species, because it is conspecific with the long-term known Trypanosoma carassii Mitrophanow, 1883, a common haemoflagellate parasite of freshwater fish...
October 31, 2022: Folia Parasitologica