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Heterophyidae Leiper 1909

Description

Heterophyidae Leiper, 1909

Ascocotyle (Phagicola) longa Ransom, 1920 Host: H. australis.

Cercarian group: pleurolophocercous. Habitat: brackish water.

Definitive host groups: birds and mammals. Locality: Rio de Janeiro, RJ.

Reference: Simões et al. (2010).

Centrocestus formosanus (Nishigori, 1924)

Host: Melanoides tuberculata (Müller) (Gastropoda: Thiaridae). Habitat: freshwater.

Cercarian group: pleurolophocercous.

Definitive host group: birds and mammals.

Localities: Brasília, DF; Belo Horizonte, MG; Natal, RN. References: Pinto & Melo (2010a), Paula-Andrade et al. (2012), Pinto & Melo (2012a).

Pygidiopsis macrostomum Travassos, 1928 Host: H. australis.

Habitat: brackish water.

Cercarian group: pleurolophocercous. Definitive host group: mammals. Locality: Rio de Janeiro, RJ.

Reference: Simões et al. (2009).

Notes

Published as part of Pinto, Hudson Alves & Melo, Alan Lane De, 2013, A checklist of cercariae (Trematoda: Digenea) in molluscs from Brazil, pp. 449-475 in Zootaxa 3666 (4) on page 456, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3666.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/220258

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Leiper
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Platyhelminthes
Order
Plagiorchiida
Family
Heterophyidae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Heterophyidae Leiper, 1909 sec. Pinto & Melo, 2013