Ameloblastella paranaensis ( Franca , Isaac, Pavanelli & Takemoto, 2003) Mendoza-Franco & Scholz, 2009

Lopes, Daniela A., Mainenti, Adriana, Sanches, Magda, Knoff, Marcelo & Gomes, Delir Correa, 2016, Type material of Platyhelminthes (Monogenoidea) housed in the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute / FIOCRUZ (CHIOC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 1979 to 2016, ZooKeys 616, pp. 1-75 : 6

Taxon classification Animalia Dactylogyridea Dactylogyridae

Ameloblastella paranaensis ( Franca, Isaac, Pavanelli & Takemoto, 2003) Mendoza-Franco & Scholz, 2009

Type host.

Iheringichthys labrosus ( Lütken, 1874) ( Osteichthyes: Pimelodidae ).

Infection site.

Gills.

Type locality.

Brazil, upper Paraná River floodplain (22°43'S, 53°10'W).

Holotype.

CHIOC 34598 a.

Paratypes.

CHIOC 34598 b, 34588 a–d.

Remarks.

Material deposited as Pseudovancleaveus paranaensis . Mendoza-Franco and Scholz (2009) transferred Pseudovancleaveus to Ameloblastella .

References.

França et al. (2003), Mendoza-Franco and Scholz (2009), Monteiro et al. (2010a).