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Report of Enodiotrema megachondrus (Looss, 1899) Looss, 1901 (Digenea: Plagiorchiidae) in a green turtle Chelonia mydas Linnaeus, 1758 (Testudines, Cheloniidae) from Brazil
- Source :
- Helminthologia, Vol 53, Iss 4, Pp 385-390 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Sciendo, 2016.
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Abstract
- Summary This paper describes the occurrence of Enodiotrema megachondrus (Looss, 1899) Looss, 1901 in a juvenile green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas Linnaeus, 1758) found on the coast of Brazil. This parasite has been described in Caretta caretta from Egypt, France, the Mediterranean Sea, the Madeira Archipelago, the Adriatic Sea and the USA, in C. mydas from Egypt and the USA, in Eretmochelys imbricata from Cuba, in Lepidochelys olivacea from Mexico and Costa Rica and in Lepidochelys kempii from USA. This note represents the first report of E. megachondus in a green sea turtle in the South-West Atlantic Ocean.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Medicine (General)
Ecology (disciplines)
Agriculture (General)
030231 tropical medicine
Zoology
parasites
Digenea
law.invention
S1-972
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
R5-920
trematodes
law
Cheloniidae
Turtle (robot)
biology
030108 mycology & parasitology
biology.organism_classification
brazil
enodiotrema megachondrus
Animal Science and Zoology
Parasitology
Plagiorchiidae
green turtle
plagiorchiidae
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13369083 and 04406605
- Volume :
- 53
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Helminthologia
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0a7ac372e21e255da51f9666bbab8afe