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Record # 16250
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Title
Journal
Damborenea MC (1994)
Temnocefalos neotropicales: Temnocephala kingsleyae sp. n. y T. lutzi Monticelli, 1913 (Platyhelminthes, Temnocephalidea) comensales de crustaceos de Brasil.
Iheringia Serie Zoologia 77, 30 set 1994: 99-105

Abstract / Notes

Two species of Temnocephala Blanchard, 1849 are reported from the external surface of crustaceans from Brazil:
Temnocephala lutzi Monticelli, 1913, found on Sylviocarcinus pictus (H. Milne-Edwards, 1853)
(Trichodactylidae), previously known from Trichodactylus petropolitanus Goldi, 1886 and Temnocephala
kingsleyae sp. n., found on the surface of Kingsleya ytupora Magalhaes, 1985. This is the first temnocephalan
species found on Pseudothelphusidae from Brazil.

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