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Contracaecum osculatum Rudolphi 1802, s.l.

Description

Contracaecum osculatum (Rudolphi, 1802) s.l.

Host: Otaria flavescens (Shaw)

Site in host: stomach

Locality: Argentina

References: Carrara (1952)

Notes: Carrara (1952) identified these nematodes as C. osculatum. However, since C. osculatum s.s. parasitize seals from the North Hemisphere (see Mattiucci and Nascetti 2008) we re-assigned this taxa as C. osculatum s.l.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Rudolphi
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Nematoda
Order
Ascaridida
Family
Anisakidae
Genus
Contracaecum
Species
osculatum
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Contracaecum osculatum , 2015

References

  • Rudolphi, C. A. (1802) Fortsetzung der beobachtungen uber die Eingeweidewurmer. Archiv fur Zoologie und Zootomie, 2, 1 - 67.
  • Carrara, I. S. (1952) Lobos marinos, pinguinos y guaneras de la costa del litoral maritimo e islas adyacentes de la Republica Argentina. Publicacion Especial de la, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad de La Plata, 180 pp.