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Corynosoma bullosum Linstow 1892

Description

Corynosoma bullosum (Linstow, 1892)

Host: Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus

Site in host: intestine

Locality: Puerto Madryn (43º14'S, 65º02'W), Chubut province

Specimens in collections: MML (accession numbers not provided)V

References: Crespo et al. (1994, reported as Bolbosoma sp.) and Berón-Vera et al. (2008)

Notes: Berón-Vera et al. (2008) re-examined the acanthocephalans collected by Crespo et al. (1994) and identified them as C. bullosum and Corynosoma sp.

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

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References

  • Crespo, E. A., Koen Alonso, M., Garcia, N. A., Reyes, L. M., Cozzuol, M. A. & Corcuera, J. (1994) Varamiento de un cachalote (Physeter macrocephalus) en la costa del Golfo Nuevo, Chubut, Argentina. Anales de la IV reunion de trabajo de especialistas en mamiferos acuaticos de America del Sur, Valdivia, pp. 56 - 74.
  • Beron-Vera, B., Crespo, E. A. & Raga, J. A. (2008) Parasites in stranded cetaceans of Patagonia. Journal of Parasitology, 94, 946 - 948. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1645 / GE- 1296.1