Creptotrema lynchi Brooks, 1976

Margarita Ostrowski de Núñez, Nathalia J. Arredondo & Alicia A. Gil de Pertierra, 2017, Adult Trematodes (Platyhelminthes) of freshwater fishes from Argentina: a checklist, Revue suisse de Zoologie 124 (1), pp. 91-113 : 93

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.1040686

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6023056

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/705F87F4-FFF9-FFF8-9685-FD7CFAC42641

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scientific name

Creptotrema lynchi Brooks, 1976
status

 

Creptotrema lynchi Brooks, 1976 View in CoL

Material deposited: MLP, USNM (type material).

Hosts: Rhinella marina (Linnaeus) ( Anura : Bufonidae ) (type host, Colombia), Leporinus obtusidens .

Localities: 1 km north of San Cristobal, Atlántico, Colombia (type locality); Irigoyen Canal, Talavera Island, Buenos Aires Province.

Site of infection: Pyloric caeca (in fish).

Reference: Lunaschi & Sutton (1995).

Remarks: The absence of subsequent reports of C. lynchi from anurans suggests that R. marina may have been an accidental host ( Curran, 2008).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Platyhelminthes

Class

Trematoda

SubClass

Digenea

Order

Plagiorchiida

Family

Allocreadiidae

Genus

Creptotrema

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