Redescription of Proteocephalus macrophallus, a parasite of Čichla ocellaris (Pisces: Cichlidae) from South America

Title:

Redescription of Proteocephalus macrophallus, a parasite of Čichla ocellaris (Pisces: Cichlidae) from South America

Creator:

Scholz, Tomáš, de Chambrier, Alain, Prouza, Antonín, and Royero, Ramiro

Identifier:

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Subject:

Proteocephalus macrophallus, Proteocephalidae, Cichla ocellaris, Cichlidae, and Venezuela

Type:

model:internalpart and TEXT

Format:

print

Description:

Proteocephalus macrophallus (Diesing, 1850), considered by several authors as species inquireruia, was recently found in Cichla ocellaris in Venezuela. This material is compared with voucher specimens from the same host (C. ocellaris) from Brazil, identified and redescribed as P. macrophallus by Woodland (1933). The specific status of P. macrophallus is confirmed. This species is characterized by: 1 ) the shape of the body, which is wide and short, 2) the absence of a neck, 3) the distribution of the vitelline follicles, which converge posteriorly to the ovarian lobes, and 4) the structure of the uterus, which is evacuated in the last proglottides and transformed to thick-walled diverticles apparently separated each from other. A neotype is designated.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Coverage:

287-291 and 49-53

Source:

Folia parasitologica | 1996 Volume:43 | Number:4

Harvested from:

CDK

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