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Contracaecum
Description
Contracaecum sp.
Host: Hydrurga leptonyx (de Blainville)
Site in host: stomach, upper intestine
Locality: Bahía San Sebastián (53°17'S, 68°28'W), Tierra del Fuego province
References: present study
Notes: About 800 adult specimens of Contracaecum sp. were collected.
Host: Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus).
Site in host: not known, worms found in scats
Locality: Elizalde Island (54°41'S, 64°16'W), Staten Island, Tierra del Fuego
References: present study
Notes: Thirteen adult specimens of Contracaecum sp. were collected in 5 fresh scats from southern elephant seals collected in Elizalde Island (Fig. 1) in August 2013 by one co-author (M.N.P.V.).
Notes
Published as part of Hernández-Orts, Jesús S., Viola, M. Natalia Paso, García, Néstor A., Crespo, Enrique A., González, Raúl, García-Varela, Martín & Kuchta, Roman, 2015, A checklist of the helminth parasites of marine mammals from Argentina, pp. 301-334 in Zootaxa 3936 (3) on page 311, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/236696
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Anisakidae
- Genus
- Contracaecum
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ascaridida
- Phylum
- Nematoda
- Taxon rank
- genus