A new Eimeria species (Protozoa: Eimeriidae) from caribou in Ameralik, West Greenland

K. Skirnisson; C. Cuyler

doi:10.1007/s00436-015-4897-x

A new Eimeria species (Protozoa: Eimeriidae) from caribou in Ameralik, West Greenland

K. Skirnisson^*, C. Cuyler

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Abstract

Fecal samples of 11 calves shot in the Ameralik area, West Greenland, in August–September 2014 were examined for coccidian parasites. The calves belonged to a population of interbreeding indigenous caribou Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus and feral semi-domestic Norwegian reindeer Rangifer tarandus tarandus. Two coccidian species were found: Eimeria rangiferis and a coccidium that was identified and described as a new species. The latter’s sporulated oocyst is spherical or slightly subspherical. Average size is 25.6 × 24.8 μm. The oocyst has two distinct walls. Wall thickness is ∼1.4 μm. The unicolored outer wall is brown, the inner wall is dark gray. The oocysts contain a small polar granule but are devoid of a microphyle. The oocysts enclose four ovoid-shaped sporocysts with a rounded end opposite to the Stieda body. The average size of sporocysts is 15.2 × 7.8 μm. Sporocysts contain a granular sporocyst residuum that forms a spherical cluster between the sporocysts, one large refractile body is present in each sporozoite. The spherical form easily distinguishes oocysts of the new species from the seven previously described eimerid species in R. tarandus. This is the first eimerid described as a new species to the sciences from caribou in the Nearctic.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1611-1615
Number of pages	5
Journal	Parasitology Research
Volume	115
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-015-4897-x
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2016

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank the Rangifer Health Network and organizer Carlos Das Neves for financing the authors’ participation at the Egilsstadir Iceland, August 2012 Rangifer Health Network meeting, which led to this collaborative project. We thank commercial hunter Aslak Jensen for providing some of the fecal samples and Fjola Rut Svavarsdottir for help with preparing Fig. . The project was partly funded by the Research Fund of the University of Iceland.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Other keywords

Eimeria rangiferis
Eimeria tuttui
Fecal analysis
R. t. caribou
R. t. tarandus
Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus
West Greenland

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A new Eimeria species (Protozoa: Eimeriidae) from caribou in Ameralik, West Greenland

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