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Corynosoma australe Johnston 1937

Description

Corynosoma australe Johnston, 1937

(syn. C. otariae Morini & Boero, 1960)

Host: Arctocephalus australis (Zimmermann)

Site in host: intestine

Locality: Claromecó (38°22'S, 60°16'W) and San Clemente del Tuyú (36°30'S, 56°20'W), Buenos Aires province; northern Patagonia (40º43'– 43º20'S, 63º04'– 65º07'W)

Specimens in collections: BMNH (2012.5.15.93–122)V; HCMLP (No. 5405)V; MZU (accession numbers not provided)V; CNHE (9560)V

References: Sardella et al. (2005) and Hernández-Orts et al. (2013b)

Host: Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus)

Site in host: intestine

Locality: San Clemente del Tuyú (36°30'S, 56°20'W), Buenos Aires province

Specimens in collections: HCMLP (No. 5406)V

References: Sardella et al. (2005)

Host: Otaria flavescens (Shaw)

Site in host: intestine

Locality: La Plata River and Puerto Quequén (38°370S, 58°500W), Buenos Aires province; northern Patagonia (40º43'– 43º20'S, 63º04'– 65º07'W)

Specimens in collections: BMNH (2012.5.15.1–20)V; MZU (accession numbers not provided)V; CNHE (9561)V

References: Morini and Boero (1960), Aznar et al. (2006; 2012) and Hernández-Orts et al. (2012b; 2013b)

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 pages 304-305, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/236696

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References

  • Johnston, T. H. (1937) Entozoa from the Australian hair seal. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 62, 9 - 16.
  • Morini, E. G. & Boero, J. J. (1960) Corynosoma otariae n. sp. (Acanthocephala; Polymorphidae) parasito de un lobo marino (Otaria flavescens). Acta y trabajos del Primer Congreso Sudamericano de Zoologia, 1959, La Plata, pp. 229 - 234.
  • Sardella, N. H., Mattiucci, S., Timi, J. T., Bastida, R. O., Rodriguez, D. H. & Nascetti, G. (2005) Corynosoma australe Johnston, 1937 and C. cetaceum Johnston & Best, 1942 (Acanthocephala: Polymorphidae) from marine mammals and fishes in Argentinian waters: allozyme markers and taxonomic status. Systematic Parasitology, 61, 143 - 156. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / s 11230 - 005 - 3131 - 0
  • Aznar, F. J., Perez-Ponce de Leon, G. & Raga, J. A. (2006) Status of Corynosoma (Acanthocephala: Polymorphidae) based on anatomical, ecological, and phylogenetic evidence, with the erection of Pseudocorynosoma n. gen. Journal of Parasitology, 92, 548 - 564. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1645 / GE- 715 R. 1