Type material of Platyhelminthes housed in the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute / FIOCRUZ (CHIOC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 1979 to 2016 (Rhabditophora, Trematoda and Cestoda)
Author
Lopes, Daniela A.
Author
Mainenti, Adriana
Author
Knoff, Marcelo
Author
Gomes, Delir Correa
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ZooKeys
2017
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.662.11685
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.662.11685
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Megathylacus brooksi Rego & Pavanelli, 1985
Type host.
Zungaro zungaro
(=
Paulicea luetkeni
)
Infection site.
Anterior intestine.
Type locality.
Brazil,
Parana
State, reservoir of Itaipu.
Holotype.
CHIOC 32184.
Paratype.
CHIOC 32183.
Remarks.
CHIOC 32183 was indicated as a paratype in the cataloguing data of CHIOC, but not in the original description. After reviewing the information and slides of
M. brooksi
, we concluded that the specimen is a paratype. Collection numbers are referred to as
"29183"
and
"29184"
in the original description due to a mistake.
Megathylacus brooksi
is considered conspecific with
M. jandia
Woodland, 1934 by
de Chambrier et al. (2014)
, but is considered a valid name in the
Global Cestode Database (2016)
.
References.
Rego and Pavanelli (1985)
,
de Chambrier et al. (2014)
,
Global Cestode Database (2016)
.