Tergestia selenei Amato, 1982

Lopes, Daniela A., Mainenti, Adriana, Knoff, Marcelo & Gomes, Delir Correa, 2017, Type material of Platyhelminthes housed in the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute / FIOCRUZ (CHIOC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 1979 to 2016 (Rhabditophora, Trematoda and Cestoda), ZooKeys 662, pp. 1-48 : 10

Tergestia selenei Amato, 1982

Type host.

Selene vomer (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Osteichthyes: Carangidae ).

Infection site.

Intestine and pyloric ceca.

Type locality.

Brazil, Santa Catarina State, Florianópolis, Barra da Lagoa.

Holotype.

CHIOC 31867.

Remarks.

Paratype deposited in the HWML collection. The species was considered to be a synonym of T. pauca Freitas & Kohn, 1965 by Wallet and Kohn (1987). However, the species is accepted by Gibson (2015).

References.

Amato (1982a), Wallet and Kohn (1987), Gibson (2015).