| Literature DB >> 22139010 |
Cláudia Portes Santos1, Antônia Lúcia Santos, Rodolfo Cunha, Leslie A Chisholm.
Abstract
Heterocotyle sulamericana n. sp. is described from the gills of Dasyatis guttata (Bloch & Schneider) caught off the coast of Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. This species can be distinguished from all other members of Heterocotyle Scott, 1904 by a combination of the morphology of the male copulatory organ, which is a short, slightly curved, sclerotised tube with no accessory piece, and the haptor, which has a single ridge surmounting all septa. This is the first Heterocotyle species to be described from the southwestern Atlantic.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 22139010 DOI: 10.1007/s11230-011-9328-5
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Syst Parasitol ISSN: 0165-5752 Impact factor: 1.431