Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of
Date of this Version
1980
Citation
Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, v. 47, no.1 (1980)
Abstract
Three species of proteocephalid cestodes were collected from Colombian siluriform fishes. Goezeella siluri Fuhrmann, 1916 is reported from Ageneiosus caucanus for the first time, and Colombia is a new locality. Goezeella siluri has a metascolex, biloculate suckers, and cortical gonads. Proteocephalideans possessing uniloculate suckers and cortical gonads represent two groupings. Those species possessing metascolices represent the genus Spatulifer Woodland, 1934, containing the species surubim, piramutab, piracatinga , rugosa , and rugata. Those lacking metascolices belong in Monticellia LaRue, 1911, comprising coryphicephala, lenha, megacephala, and spinulifera. New combinations include Spatulifer piramutab for Goezeella piramutab, S. piracatinga for Monticellia piracatinga, S. rugosa for M. rugosa, and S. rugata for M. rugata . Nomimoscolex alovarius sp.n. from Pimelodus clarias most closely resembles N. kaparari by having fewer than 100 testes per proglottid and exhibiting two papilla-like protuberances on each sucker, but the new species differs by having 63-100 rather than 40 total lateral uterine branches, single lateral vitelline fields rather than dorsal and ventral lateral fields, anteriorly expanded ovarian lobes, and by lacking an expanded apical portion of the scolex . Corallotaenia sp. from Ageneiosus caucanus represents the first report of the genus in South America.
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