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On some Remarkable New Cestodes from the Amazon Siluroid Fish, Brachyplatystoma filamentosum (Lichtenstein)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

W. N. F. Woodland
W. N. F. Woodland
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Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London, N.W. 1
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The Piraeeba, or Pirá-aïba (Piraïba) as Goeldi spells it, is a large Siluroid (my largest specimen measured 135 cm. in length) which is locally plentiful in the Amazon and has been described by Goeldi (1902). Goeldi named this species Piratinga pirá-aïba and it is the modern Brachyplatystoma filamentosum (Lichtenstein). I am indebted top Mr J. R. Norman of the British Museum (Natural History) for the modern name.

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Parasitology , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , June 1934 , pp. 268 - 277
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1934

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