Demidospermus labrosi Franca , Isaac, Pavanelli & Takemoto, 2003

Lopes, Daniela A., Mainenti, Adriana, Sanches, Magda, Knoff, Marcelo & Gomes, Delir Correa, 2016, Type material of Platyhelminthes (Monogenoidea) housed in the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute / FIOCRUZ (CHIOC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 1979 to 2016, ZooKeys 616, pp. 1-75 : 28

Taxon classification Animalia Dactylogyridea Dactylogyridae

Demidospermus labrosi Franca, Isaac, Pavanelli & Takemoto, 2003

Type host.

Iheringichthys labrosus

Infection site.

Gills.

Type locality.

Brazil, upper Paraná River floodplain (22°43'S, 53°10'W).

Holotype.

CHIOC 34594 a.

Paratypes.

CHIOC 34587 a–c, 34594 b–c, 34595, 34596, 34597.

Remarks.

Some authors considered the species to be a synonym of Demidospermus cornicinus Kritsky & Gutiérrez, 1998 ( Cohen and Kohn 2008a, Monteiro et al. 2010a). Takemoto et al. (2009) referred to it as Demidospermus labrosi .

References.

França et al. (2003), Cohen and Kohn (2008a), Takemoto et al. (2009), Monteiro et al. (2010a).