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Corynosoma hamanni

Description

Corynosoma hamanni (von Linstow, 1892)

Host: Hydrurga leptonyx (de Blainville)

Site in host: intestine, stomach

Locality: Bahía San Sebastián (53°17'S, 68°28'W), Tierra del Fuego province; Patagonia

Specimens in collections: CNHE (9297)V

References: Aznar et al. (2006) and present study

Notes: A male leopard seal H. leptonyx (body length 2.10 m) was found stranded on Bahía de San Sebastián in October 2013 (Fig. 1). Thirty-five adults of C. hamanni were collected attached to the stomach wall.

Host: Leptonychotes weddellii (Lesson)

Site in host: intestine

Locality: Tierra del Fuego province; Patagonia

References: Aznar et al. (2006)

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Polymorphidae
Genus
Corynosoma
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Polymorphida
Phylum
Acanthocephala
Species
hamanni
Taxon rank
species

References

  • 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