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PARASITE
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 15-22Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2005121015
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Eucestoda; trypanorhyncha; Homeacanthoidea; elasmobranchs; Brazil
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Elasmobranch specimens of lamnid and sphyrnid captured in 1999 in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, were parasitized with homeacanthoid trypanorhynch cestodes : Isurus oxyrinchus; Rafinesque, 1810 with Nybelinia lingualis (Cuvier, 1817) Dollfus, 1929; Sphyrna zygaena (Linnaeus, 1758) with Heteronybelinia rougetcampanae (Dollfus, 1960) Palm, 1999. New details of internal morphology and/or scolex and/or proglottid surface ultrastructure are given. Adults of N. lingualis are reported for the first time in the Brazilian coast.
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