Zygocotyle lunata (Diesing, 1836) Stunkard, 1917

González-Acuña, Daniel, Moreno, Lucila, Cicchino, Armando, Mironov, Sergey & Kinsella, Mike, 2010, Checklist of the parasites of the black-necked swan, Cygnus melanocoryphus (Aves: Anatidae), with new records from Chile, Zootaxa 2637, pp. 55-68 : 57

Zygocotyle lunata (Diesing, 1836) Stunkard, 1917

Site of infection: cecum.

Localities: Buenos Aires Zoological Garden, Buenos Aires city (captivity); Del Burro lagoon, Buenos Aires Province; Pellegrini Lake, Río Negro Province ( Argentina).

Life history: H1: Biomphalaria peregrina ( d’Orbigny, 1835) (natural host); H. trivolvis , H. anceps ( Menke, 1830) , and H. antrosum ( Conrad, 1834) . B. straminea ( Dunker, 1848) , B. orbignyi Paraense, 1975 , B. tenagophila ( d’Orbigny, 1835) , B. oligoza Paraense, 1974 , B. glabrata ( Say, 1818) (Experimental host). No H2- cercariae encyst on vegetation.

Reference: Digiani (1997).

Comments: Ostrowski de Núñez et al. (2003) fed mice and chicks with metacercariae released from experimentally infected B. peregrina in Argentina and recovered gravid adults.