Posterotestes unelen gen. et sp. n. (Digenea: Apocreadiidae) from Percichthys trucha (Osteichthyes: Percichthyidae) in Patagonia, Argentina

Folia Parasitol (Praha). 2003 Sep;50(3):211-4.

Abstract

Posterotestes gen. n. (Digenea: Apocreadiidae, Apocrcadiinae) is proposed for specimens with the following features: spiny body, posterior position of gonads, extension of vitelline follicles up to level of intestinal bifurcation and absent at post-testicular space, long oesophagus and extension of caeca up to anterior testis. Posterotestes unelen sp. n. is described from the intestine of the native fish, Percichthys trucha (Cuvier et Valenciennes) (Osteichthyes: Percichthyidae) from Patagonian Andean lakes.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Argentina
  • Female
  • Fish Diseases / parasitology*
  • Fresh Water / parasitology
  • Intestines / parasitology
  • Male
  • Perciformes / parasitology*
  • Trematoda / anatomy & histology
  • Trematoda / isolation & purification*
  • Trematoda / pathogenicity