• DOI:10.14411/FP.2006.036
Corpus ID: 17295375

Taxonomic status of Ascocotyle (Phagicola) rara Arruda, Muniz-Pereira et Pinto, 2002 (Digenea: Heterophyidae).

@article{Scholz2006TaxonomicSO,
  title={Taxonomic status of Ascocotyle (Phagicola) rara Arruda, Muniz-Pereira et Pinto, 2002 (Digenea: Heterophyidae).},
  author={T. Scholz and L. C. Muniz-Pereira and C. Santos},
  journal={Folia parasitologica},
  year={2006},
  volume={53 4},
  pages={
          297-301
        }
}

• T. Scholz, L. C. Muniz-Pereira, C. Santos
• Published 2006
• Biology, Medicine
• Folia parasitologica

Holotype and paratype of Ascocotyle (Phagicola) rara Arruda, Muniz-Pereira et Pinto, 2002, a heterophyid trematode recently described on the basis of two worms collected by Lauro Travassos in 1921 in the intestine of Ixobrychus exilis (Gmelin) from Brazil, were studied. The morphology of the worms revealed their conspecificity with Ascocotyle (Phagicola) angeloi Travassos, 1928 found in the same host. Both the taxa have a similar length (between 600 and 900 microm) and shape of the body (long… Expand

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