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On two new Cestodes from the Amazon Siluroid Fish Brachyplatystoma vaillanti Cuv. and Val

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

W. N. F. Woodland
W. N. F. Woodland
Affiliation:
Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London, N.W. 1.
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Brachyplatystoma vaillanti is locally very common in the Amazon river, though, during my collecting tour in 1931, I examined only twenty-two examples, caught between Codajaz (nearly 1200 miles from the sea) and Gurupa. The local name of this Siluroid is Piramutāb; it is a fairly large fish (my largest specimen measuring 67 cm. in length) and possesses very long maxillary barbels (in some cases nearly as long as the body). From this fish I obtained two new species of Cestodes, one, the more numerous parasite, is a Phyllobothriid, and, so far as I am aware, this is the first occasion on which a Phyllobothriid has been described both from a fresh-water fish and from a Siluroid; and the other is a second and new species of Fuhrmann's genus Goezeella, very closely related to his G. siluri described in 1915.

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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , December 1933 , pp. 485 - 490
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1933

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