{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,3]],"date-time":"2026-02-03T23:52:22Z","timestamp":1770162742538,"version":"3.49.0"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Cambridge University Press (CUP)","issue":"12","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,25]],"date-time":"2025-09-25T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1758758400000},"content-version":"unspecified","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["cambridge.org"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["Parasitology"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2025,10]]},"abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:italic>Clestobothrium<\/jats:italic>\n                    L\u00fche, 1899 is a genus of cestodes belonging to the order Bothriocephalidea, which infects marine fish from the Gadiformes order. Herein, a novel species of\n                    <jats:italic>Clestobothrium<\/jats:italic>\n                    is described from the intestine of the European hake\n                    <jats:italic>Merluccius merluccius<\/jats:italic>\n                    (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Ionian Sea (Eastern Mediterranean Sea), through an integrative taxonomic approach that combines morphological and molecular data. The new species, named\n                    <jats:italic>Clestobothrium brettiae<\/jats:italic>\n                    n. sp., can be distinguished from all congeners by its unique ovary shape, and a combination of characters including the arrangement and number of testes. It shares similar morphological characters, with\n                    <jats:italic>Clestobothrium crassiceps<\/jats:italic>\n                    (Rudolphi, 1819) L\u00fche, 1899, which overlaps in host and geographic distribution. However, morphological differences between\n                    <jats:italic>Clestobothrium brettiae<\/jats:italic>\n                    n. sp. and\n                    <jats:italic>C. crassiceps<\/jats:italic>\n                    also include the arrangement of gladiate spinitriches, as well as a larger scolex, proglottids, testes and cirrus sac, and different ovary morphology. The establishment of\n                    <jats:italic>Clestobothrium brettiae<\/jats:italic>\n                    n. sp. as a novel taxon is supported by detailed morphological description and biometric statistics, in addition to molecular characterisation (based on partial small subunit ribosomal ribonucleic acid [rRNA], partial large subunit rRNA, and internal transcribed spacer region 2), genetic distance, and phylogenetic analyses.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s0031182025100887","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,25]],"date-time":"2025-09-25T06:38:52Z","timestamp":1758782332000},"page":"1221-1235","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/policypage","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["A novel species of bothriocephalid cestode,\n                    <i>Clestobothrium brettiae<\/i>\n                    n. sp. in the European hake (\n                    <i>Merluccius merluccius<\/i>\n                    ) revealed using an integrative taxonomic approach"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"152","author":[{"given":"Flavia","family":"Occhibove","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alejandro","family":"L\u00f3pez-Verdejo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6483-3103","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mario","family":"Santoro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn"},{"name":"National Biodiversity Future Center"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,25]]},"container-title":["Parasitology"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/S0031182025100887","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,3]],"date-time":"2026-02-03T10:47:29Z","timestamp":1770115649000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/product\/identifier\/S0031182025100887\/type\/journal_article"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,25]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"12","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2025,10]]}},"alternative-id":["S0031182025100887"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/s0031182025100887","relation":{},"ISSN":["0031-1820","1469-8161"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0031-1820","type":"print"},{"value":"1469-8161","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,25]]},"assertion":[{"value":"\u00a9 The Author(s), 2025. 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