BIOMPHALARIA STRAMINEA (MOLLUSCA: PLANORBIDAE) AS INTERMEDIATE HOST OF ZYGOCOTYLE LUNATA (TREMATODA: ZYGOCOTYLIDAE) IN BRAZIL

Authors

  • Fernando Sérgio Barbosa Laboratório de Taxonomia e Biologia de Invertebrados, Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3683-5803
  • Hudson Alves Pinto Laboratório de Taxonomia e Biologia de Invertebrados, Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5519-1348
  • Alan Lane de Melo Laboratório de Taxonomia e Biologia de Invertebrados, Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7118-7210

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24039/rnh2011521081

Keywords:

experimental infection, Planorbidae, mollusks, trematodes, new host

Abstract

Malacological surveys were carried out in lakes located near the São Francisco River or its tributaries in Iguatama, Minas Gerais, Brazil, between July 2009 and September 2010. Of 2.609 specimens of Biomphalaria straminea (Dunker, 1848) collected, 14 (0.54%) were infected by amphistomecercariae. Metacercariae obtained in solid subtract were used to perform experimental infection of AKR/J strain of mice. It was verified the presence of eggs of the parasite in the feces of the mice 30 days after infection. Adult parasites recovered from the intestinal caecum were identified as Zygocotyle lunata (Diesing, 1836). This is the first report of Z. lunata in B. straminea from Brazil.

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Published

2011-05-23

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Sérgio Barbosa, F. ., Alves Pinto, H. ., & Lane de Melo, A. . (2011). BIOMPHALARIA STRAMINEA (MOLLUSCA: PLANORBIDAE) AS INTERMEDIATE HOST OF ZYGOCOTYLE LUNATA (TREMATODA: ZYGOCOTYLIDAE) IN BRAZIL. Neotropical Helminthology, 5(2), 241–246. https://doi.org/10.24039/rnh2011521081

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