A of marine larval trematodes (Digenea) in mollusks from Argentina, Southwestern Atlantic coast

BAGNATO, ESTEFANIA; CARMEN GILARDONI; DI GIORGIO GISELLE; CREMONTE , FLORENCIA

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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Año: 2015 vol. 11 p. 1 - 10

1809-127X

A checklist of cercariae parasitizing marine molluscs from Patagonian coast, Argentina, based onliterature sources and new records here presented. In total, cercariae of 31 species of marine digeneans, including 11 new records here presented, are known to infect 20 species of molluscs (14 in nine gastropods species; 17 in 11 bivalve species). These records include two speciesof Aporocotylidae, four Bucephalidae, one Fellodistomidae, five Gymnophallidae, one Hemiuroidea, four Lepocreadiidae, two Microphallidae, five Monorchiidae, oneNotocotylidae, one Philophthalmidae, two Renicolidae, one Schistosomatidae and two Zoogonidae. For each digenean species, their hosts, habitat type, localities, infectionsite, prevalence, life cycle advances, and access numbers in helminthological collections and GenBank, when available, are detailed. Regarding the life cycles, eight were completely elucidated and four were partially elucidated. Moreover, there are molecular data for 15 species.The data here presented constitutes an advance in the parasites biodiversity knowledge and their life cycles.