On a new Subfamily of Proteocephalid Cestodes—the Othinoscolecinae—from the Amazon Siluroid Fish Platystomatichthys sturio (Kner) | Parasitology | Cambridge Core (original) (raw)

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From three specimens of the Amazon Siluroid fish Platystomatichthys sturio (the “Lenha”) I have described (1) Othinoscolex lenha, representing not only a new genus and species but also a new subfamily (the Othinoscolecinae) of the Proteocephalidae, (2) Othinoscolex myzofer, a second species of the new genus, (3) a distinct new species of La Rue's genus Monticellia—Monticellia lenha, and (4) a new species of Proteocephalus, Proteocephalus lenha.

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