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Neopolystoma fentoni Platt, 2000

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 : 59-60

publication ID

 https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.616.8481

publication LSID

 lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5A8C5501-1C4A-4580-91CA-41FFE5879A56

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B8306EDB-C35C-7730-7FC1-3B663318D992

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scientific name

 Neopolystoma fentoni Platt, 2000
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Polystomatidea Polystomatidae

Neopolystoma fentoni Platt, 2000 View in CoL

Type host.

Cryptochelys leucostoma ( Duméril & Bibron, 1851) ( Testudines : Kinosternidae )

Infection site.

Conjunctival sac.

Type locality.

Costa Rica, Guanacaste, Santa Rosa, Guanacaste Conservation Area, Quebrada Costa Rica (10°49.666'N, 85°38.216'W).

Paratypes.

CHIOC 34292, 34293 a–b, 34294.

Remarks.

CHIOC 34292 and 34293 a–b were collected from Rhinoclemmys pulcherrima (Gray, 1856) ( Testudines : Geoemydidae ) in Quebrada El Duende (10°50.236'N, 85°36.724'W), Guanacaste Conservation Area. Holotype and other paratypes deposited in USNPC.

Reference.

Platt (2000).

Specimens