Cestodes, Brimley, 1938

Jr, Joaber Pereira & Boeger, Walter A., 2005, Larval tapeworms (Platyhelminthes, Cestoda) from sciaenid fishes of the southern coast of Brazil, Zoosystema 27 (1), pp. 5-25 : 6-7

ethanol. Cestodes were stained with Semichon’s carmine or Delafield’s hematoxilin and mounted in Canada balsam. Histological sections (15 mm) were stained with hematoxylin and eosin. Terminology for hooks and armature types is that proposed by Dollfus (1942), Campbell & Beveridge (1994), and Beveridge & Campbell (1989), respectively. The classification used herein is that of Campbell & Beveridge (1994), and of Palm (1999) for Tentaculariidae . Paratypes of P. dollfusi Carvajal & Rego, 1983 , deposited in the Helminthological Collection of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (CHIOC 32018 b-d), were examined for comparison. Drawings were made with the aid of a drawing tube. Descriptions, measurements, and drawings are presented for those species for which systematic and/or morphological knowledge are/is incomplete. Measurements were made either with an ocular micrometer or a digital image system using the program Sigma Scan Pro (Jandel Scientific Software) and are presented in mm, unless otherwise indicated in the respective descriptions; the mean and standard deviation (±) is presented followed by the range in parentheses when more than two specimens are available.

ABBREVIATIONS

Used in Host sections

IGD incresed geographical distribution;

LH smallest and largest length (cm) of parasitized host;

MI mean intensity (sensu Bush et al. 1997);

MA mean abundance (sensu Bush et al. 1997);

NH new host record;

P prevalence.

Material depositories

CHIOC Helminthological Collection of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro;

HWML Harold W. Manter Laboratory of the University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska ;

MNHN Helminthological Collection of Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris.

USNPC US National Parasite Collection, Beltsville, Maryland ;