Pelaezia loossi (Pérez-Vigueras)

Paredes-León, Ricardo, García-Prieto, Luis, Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen, León-Règagnon, Virginia & Pérez, Tila M., 2008, Metazoan parasites of Mexican amphibians and reptiles, Zootaxa 1904, pp. 1-166 : 6

Pelaezia loossi (Pérez-Vigueras)

Crocodylia (A): Intestine.

TABASCO: Frontera: Crocodylus moreleti ( García-Reynoso, 1991) . YUCATÁN: Estuario Celestún: Crocodylus moreleti ( Moravec, 2001; Salgado-Maldonado & Aguirre-Macedo, 1991).

Specimens deposited: CNHE (1366, 1520), IPASCR.

Notes: This species was described as Acanthochasmus loossi ( Pérez-Vigueras, 1957) , and transferred into the genera Acanthostomum ( Groschaft & Barus, 1970) , Timoniella ( Brooks, 1980; Brooks & Holcman, 1993; Brooks, 2004) and Pelaezia ( Salgado-Maldonado & Aguirre-Macedo, 1991) . The specimens from Tabasco were determined as Acanthostomum sp. and later as Pelaezia loossi ( Moravec, 2001) .