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Trigonocotyle
Description
Trigonocotyle spp.
Host: Tasmacetus shepherdi Oliver
Site in host: stomach
Locality: Estancia Sara and Punta Sinai, Tierra del Fuego province
References: Dougnac and Fredes (2012)
Notes: Species of Trigonocotyle inhabit the intestine of cetaceans (Delyamure 1955; Markowski 1955; Hoberg 1990). The presences of specimens of Trigonocotyle spp. in the stomach of T. shepherdi seems to be related to postmortem movement of the tapeworms from the anterior small intestine.
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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 321, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/236696
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Tetrabothriidae
- Genus
- Trigonocotyle
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Tetrabothriidea
- Phylum
- Platyhelminthes
- Taxon rank
- genus
References
- Dougnac, C. & Fredes, F. (2012) Identificacion de endoparasitos en cetaceos de Tierra del Fuego. Editorial Academica Espanola, Saarbrucken, 130 pp.
- Delyamure, S. L. (1955) Helminth fauna of marine mammals (ecology and phylogeny). Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 517 pp. [translated by the Israel Program for Scientific Translation, Jerusalem, 1968, 522 pp]
- Markowski, S. (1955) Cestodes of whales and dolphins from the Discovery collections. Discovery Reports, 27, 377 - 395.
- Hoberg, E. P. (1990) Trigonocotyle sexitesticulae sp. nov. (Eucestoda: Tetrabothriidae): a parasite of pygmy killer whales (Feresa attenuata). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 68, 1835 - 1838. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / z 90 - 263