Olive Ridley Sea Turtle Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) from Brazil as a New Host of Pyelosomum cochlear Looss 1899 (Digenea: Pronocephalidae)

Max R. Werneck; Derek B. de Amorim; David Blair

doi:10.1654/4739.1

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Max R. Werneck,^1,* Derek B. de Amorim,² David Blair³

¹1 BW Consultoria Veterinária, Rua Ponciano Eugênio Duarte no. 203, Centro, Ubatuba, SP, CEP 11.680-0
²2 Centro de Estudos Costeiros, Limnológicos e Marinhos (CECLIMAR), Instituto de Biociências, Univers
³3 School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Austral

^*Corresponding author.

Abstract

Here we present the occurrence of Pyelosomum cochlear Looss 1899 in the urinary bladder of an olive ridley sea turtle Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) from Brazil. This parasite species has previously been reported only from Chelonia mydas from Egypt, the United States (including Puerto Rico), Panama, and Costa Rica. This paper reports the first occurrence of P. cochlear parasitizing L. olivacea and the first occurrence of this parasite in the western South Atlantic.

The Helminthological Society of Washington

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Max R. Werneck, Derek B. de Amorim, and David Blair "Olive Ridley Sea Turtle Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) from Brazil as a New Host of Pyelosomum cochlear Looss 1899 (Digenea: Pronocephalidae)," Comparative Parasitology 82(1), 144-147, (1 January 2015). https://doi.org/10.1654/4739.1

Published: 1 January 2015

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