Title
New Anenterotrema Stunkard, 1938 (Digenea: Anenterotrematidae) from Silky Short-Tailed Bat, Carollia brevicauda Schinz, 1821, in Peru
Date Issued
01 January 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
review
Publisher(s)
Helminthological Society of Washington
Abstract
Anenterotrema is a genus of digeneans lacking digestive systems and parasitic in Neotropical bats. We have found a new species of Anenterotrema in silky short-tailed bats (Carollia brevicauda) from Peru. The new Anenterotrema species can be readily differentiated from previously described congeners by a combination of morphological characters. It differs from its morphologically closest cogener, Anenterotrema mesolecitha, in having smaller eggs, a much larger cirrus sac, and in the position of ovary. This is the sixth species of this genus and first to be described from Peru and C. brevicauda.
Start page
78
End page
82
Volume
85
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Parasitología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85048372953
Source
Comparative Parasitology
ISSN of the container
15252647
Sponsor(s)
This work was funded in part by the United States National Science Foundation grant DEB-1120734 to V.V.T.
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