Falcaustra affinis (Leidy)

Paredes-León, Ricardo, García-Prieto, Luis, Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen, León-Règagnon, Virginia & Pérez, Tila M., 2008, Metazoan parasites of Mexican amphibians and reptiles, Zootaxa 1904, pp. 1-166 : 51

publication ID

1175­5334

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DA5C87CB-4E64-C828-FF05-31B3FECAF9C7

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scientific name

Falcaustra affinis (Leidy)
status

 

Falcaustra affinis (Leidy)

Testudines (A): Intestine.

MICHOACÁN: Lago de Pátzcuaro, Manantiales de Cointzio: Kinosternon hirtipes ( Pérez-Ponce de León et al., 2001).

Specimens deposited: CNHE (3758-60).

Notes: Identification of these specimens was based on the description of Falcaustra affinis by Caballero (1939a); however, according to Bursey and Goldberg (2001), the specimens determined by this author correspond with F. concinnae (see below). Moreover, F. affinis is currently a species inquirenda (Bursey & Goldberg, 2001).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Nematoda

Class

Chromadorea

Order

Rhabditida

Family

Kathlaniidae

Genus

Falcaustra

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