Dracunculus brasiliensis Moravec & Santos, 2009

Lopes, Daniela A., Gomes, Delir Correa & Knoff, Marcelo, 2017, Type material of Acanthocephala, Nematoda and other non-helminths phyla (Cnidaria, Annelida, and Arthropoda) housed in the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute / FIOCRUZ (CHIOC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 1979 to 2016, ZooKeys 711, pp. 1-52 : 15

Dracunculus brasiliensis Moravec & Santos, 2009

Type host.

Eunectes murinus (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Serpentes : Boidae ).

Infection site.

Subcutaneous tissue (inside skin swelling) and body cavity (mesentery near lung).

Type locality.

Brazil, Pará State, Mexiana Island (Amazon River delta), Santo Ambrósio Farm (00°05'30"S, 49°34'50"W).

Holotype.

♀ CHIOC 35610 a.

Remarks.

Paratype deposited in the IPCAS collection.

Reference.

Moravec and Santos (2009).