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New records and descriptions of digeneans from the Magellanic penguin Spheniscus magellanicus (Forster) (Aves: Sphenisciformes) on the coast of Brazil

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Five species of digeneans parasitic in the Magellanic penguin Spheniscus magellanicus (Forster) from off the Brazilian coast of the western Atlantic are reported for the first time from this host and described. These are Mesostephanus odhneri (Travassos, 1924) Lutz, 1935, Posthodiplostomum macrocotyle Dubois, 1937, Stephanoprora uruguayensis Holcman-Spector & Olagüe, 1989, Ascocotyle (Phagicola) longa Ransom, 1920 and Ascocotyle (Phagicola) sp. One other digenean, Cardiocephaloides physalis (Lutz, 1926) Sudarikov, 1959, was also recorded. The taxonomy of the species and available data on their life-cycles are commented upon in relation to the possible origins of digenean infections of the Magellanic penguin.

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We thank the following students and researchers who helped in collecting the penguins: Claudia Maribel Vega (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro); Jailson Fulgencio de Moura, Victor Silveira, Stephanie Cardinot and Thais Sholl (Fundação Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro); Karina Braga (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro); and the staff of CRAM (Centro de Recuperação de Animais Marinhos—Universidade Federal do Rio Grande): Ralph Eric Thijl Vanstreels, Silvia Gastal, Pedro Bruno-Filho and Rodolfo P. Silva-Vilho. Dr David Gibson (Natural History Museum, London, UK) kindly commented on a draft of the MS. Thanks are also due to Drs Francisco Montero (University of Valencia, Spain) and Julia Diaz (CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina), who commented on the identification of the material. This study was partly funded by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Brazil (MB and JLL), Institute of Parasitology, České Budějovice (RVO 60077344) and the Czech Science Foundation (grant P505/12/G112 to TS and AK).

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    Martha Brandão & José L. Luque

  2. Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

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Brandão, M., Luque, J.L., Scholz, T. et al. New records and descriptions of digeneans from the Magellanic penguin Spheniscus magellanicus (Forster) (Aves: Sphenisciformes) on the coast of Brazil. Syst Parasitol 85, 79–98 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-013-9410-2

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