Monascus americanus 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

Monascus americanus Amato, 1982

Type host.

Trachurus lathami Nichols, 1920 ( Osteichthyes: Carangidae ).

Infection site.

Intestine.

Type locality.

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

Holotype.

CHIOC 31869.

Remarks.

Paratype deposited in the HWML collection. This species was considered to be a synonym of M. filiformis (Rudolphi, 1819) by Gaevskaya (1989) and Sey et al. (2003). However, the species is accepted by Gibson (2015).

References.

Amato (1982a), Gaevskaya (1989), Sey et al. (2003), Gibson (2015).