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Posterotestes unelen Ostrowski

Description

* Posterotestes unelen Ostrowski de Núñez, Brugni & Flores, 2003

Type host. Percichthys trucha (Cuvier & Valenciennes) (Pisces: Percichthyidae).

Site of infection. Posterior part of intestine.

Type locality. Argentina, Province of Chubut, Lago Epuyén (42°11ʹS, 71°31ʹW).

Paratypes: MLP 5101.

Remarks. Holotype and 2 paratype deposited in the Colección Nacional de Parasitología in the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales B. Rivadavia, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Reference. Ostrowski de Núñez et al. (2003).

Notes

Published as part of Lunaschi, Lia I., Álvarez, Victor Hugo Merlo & Damborenea, Cristina, 2012, Type material housed in the Helminthological Collection of the Museo de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 1-59 in Zootaxa 3199 on page 41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.208967

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Apocreadiidae
Genus
Posterotestes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Plagiorchiida
Phylum
Platyhelminthes
Scientific name authorship
Ostrowski
Species
unelen
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Ostrowski de Nunez, M., Brugni, N. & Flores, V. R. (2003) Posterotestes unelen gen. et sp. n. (Digenea: Apocreadiidae) from Percichthys trucha (Osteichthyes: Percichthyidae) in Patagonia, Argentina. Folia Parasitologica, 50, 211 - 214.