Parasite (Mar 2005)

Taxonomic reports of Homeacanthoidea (Eucestoda: Trypanorhyncha) in Lamnid and Sphyrnid elasmobranchs collected off the coast of Santa Catarina, Brazil

  • Gomes D.C.,
  • Knoff M.,
  • São Clemente S.C.,
  • Lanfredi R.M.,
  • Pinto R.M.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2005121015
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 15 – 22

Abstract

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Elasmobranch specimens of lamnid and sphyrnid captured in 1999 in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, were parasitized with homeacanthoid trypanorhynch cestodes : Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810 with Nybelinia lingualis (Cuvier, 1817) Dollfus, 1929 ; Sphyrna zygaena (Linnaeus, 1758) with Heteronybelinia rougetcampanae (Dollfus, 1960) Palm, 1999. New details of internal morphology and/or scolex and/or proglottid surface ultrastructure are given. Adults of N. lingualis are reported for the first time in the Brazilian coast.

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