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Polymorphidae

Description

Family Polymorphidae

Corynosoma Lühe, 1904

Corynosoma sp.

Location: small intestine. Locality: Lake Yelcho (Chile). Reference: Torres et al. (1992).

Corynosoma shackletoni Zdzitowiecki, 1978 Other host: Pygoscelis papua (Forster). Paratenic host: Fishs: Notothenia coriiceps neglecta Nybeliin, N. rossi marmorata Fischer, Parachaenichthys charcoti (Vaillant), Chaenocephalus aceratus (Lönnberg).

Location: ileum.

Locality: South Shetland Islands (Antarctica).

Reference: Zdzitowiecki (1978, 1985).

Filicollis Lühe, 1911

Filicollis sp.

Location: small intestine. Locality: Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Reference: Travassos et al. (1960).

Profilicollis Meyer, 1931

Profilicollis antarticus Zdzitowiecki, 1985

Location: Lower ileum.

Localities: Otago Peninsula (New Zealand). South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Lake: Yelcho, Yaldad (Chile).

Life history: H1: Hemigrapsus crenulatus (Milne-Edwards), Helice crassa (Dana), Macrophtalmus hirtipes (Jacquinot).

References: Torres et al. (1992), Latham & Poulin (2002). Profilicollis bullocki Mateo, Cordova & Guzmán, 1982

Other host: Larus pipixcan Wagler, Larus belcheri Vigors, Larus modestus Tshudi.

Location: small intestine.

Locality: Caleta Lenga, Región del Bío Bío (Chile).

Life history: H1: Emerita análoga (Stimpson), Hemigrapsus crenulatus (H. Milne Edwards).

Reference: Riquelme et al. (2006).

Profilicollis novaezelandensis Brockerhoff & Smales, 2002

Location: lower ileum.

Locality: Otago Peninsula (New Zealand).

Life history: H1: Hemigrapsus edwardsi (Hilgendorf).

Reference: Latham & Poulin (2002).

Polymorphus Lühe, 1911

Polymorphus sp.

Location: small intestine.

Localities: Bariloche, Rio Negro Province and Lake Rosario, Chubut Province (Argentina). Reference: Kreiter & Semenas (1997).

Notes

Published as part of González-Acuña, Daniel, Cerda, Fabiola, López, Juana, Ortega, René, Mathieu, Christian & Kinsella, Mike, 2009, Checklist of the helminths of the kelp gull, Larus dominicanus (Aves: Laridae), with new records from Chile, pp. 27-43 in Zootaxa 2297 on pages 38-39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.191612

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Biodiversity

Family
Polymorphidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Polymorphida
Phylum
Acanthocephala
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Torres, P., Contreras, A., Cubillos, V., Gesche W., Montesfusco A., Rebolledo C., Mira A., Arenas J., Miranda J., Asenjo, S. & Schlatter S. (1992) Parasitismo en peces, aves piscivoras y comunidades humanas riberenas de los lagos Yelcho y Tagua Tagua, X Region de Chile. Archivos de Medicina Veterinaria, 20, 76 - 92.
  • Zdzitowiecki, K. (1978) Corynosoma shackletoni sp. n. from host in South Shetlands and South Georgia (Antarctica). Bulletin de l'Academie Polonaise des Science, II Serie des Science, 26, 629 - 634.
  • Zdzitowiecki, K. (1985) Acanthocephalans of birds from South Shetlands (Antarctica). Acta Parasitologica Polonica, 30, 11 - 24.
  • Travassos, L., Teixeira de Freitas, J., Machado de Mendoca, J. & Oliveira Rodrigues, H. (1960) Excursao a Cabo Frio, Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Atas da Sociedade de Biologia do Rio de Janeiro, 4, 70 - 71.
  • Latham, A. D. M. & Poulin, R. (2002) New records of gastrointestinal helminths from the southern black-backed gull (Larus dominicanus) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 29, 253 - 257.
  • Riquelme, C., M. George-Nascimento & Balboa L. (2006) Morfometria y fecundidad de Profilicollis bullocki Mateo, Cordova & Guzman 1982 (Acanthocephala: Polimorfidae) en especies simpatricas de aves costeras de Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 79, 465 - 474.
  • Kreiter, A. & Semenas, L. (1997) Helmintos parasitos de Larus dominicanus en la Patagonia Argentina. Boletin Chileno de Parasitologia, 52, 39 - 42.