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

BAGNATO ESTEFANÍA; GILARDONI CARMEN; DI GIORGIO GISELE; CREMONTE FLORENCIA

Checklist

Check List

Año: 2015

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A checklist of cercariae parasitizing marine molluscs from Patagonian coast, Argentina, based on literature sources and new records here presented. In total, cercariae of 31 species of marine digenean, including 11 new records here presented, are known to infecting 20 species of molluscs (14 in 9 gastropods species; 17 in 11 bivalve species). These records include 2 species of Aporocotylidae, 4 Bucephalidae, 1 Fellodistomidae, 5 Gymnophallidae, 1 Hemiuroidea, 4 Lepocreadiidae, 2 Microphallidae, 5 Monorchiidae, 1 Notocotylidae, 1 Philophthalmidae, 2 Renicolidae, 1 Schistosomatidae and 2 Zoogonidae. For each digenean species, their hosts, habitat type, localities, infection site, prevalence, life cycle advances, collection number and GenBank number are detailed when available. Regarding the life cycles, 8 were completely elucidated and 4 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.