Megathylacus brooksi Rego & Pavanelli, 1985

Lopes, Daniela A., Mainenti, Adriana, Knoff, Marcelo & Gomes, Delir Correa, 2017, Type material of Platyhelminthes housed in the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute / FIOCRUZ (CHIOC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 1979 to 2016 (Rhabditophora, Trematoda and Cestoda), ZooKeys 662, pp. 1-48 : 29

Megathylacus brooksi Rego & Pavanelli, 1985

Type host.

Zungaro zungaro (= Paulicea luetkeni )

Infection site.

Anterior intestine.

Type locality.

Brazil, Paraná State, reservoir of Itaipu.

Holotype.

CHIOC 32184.

Paratype.

CHIOC 32183.

Remarks.

CHIOC 32183 was indicated as a paratype in the cataloguing data of CHIOC, but not in the original description. After reviewing the information and slides of M. brooksi , we concluded that the specimen is a paratype. Collection numbers are referred to as “29183” and “29184” in the original description due to a mistake. Megathylacus brooksi is considered conspecific with M. jandia Woodland, 1934 by de Chambrier et al. (2014), but is considered a valid name in the Global Cestode Database (2016).

References.

Rego and Pavanelli (1985), de Chambrier et al. (2014), Global Cestode Database (2016).