Ostrowski de Nunez, M.; Brugni, N.; Flores, V. R. (2003). Posterotestes unelen gen. et sp. n. (Digenea: Apocreadiidae) from Percichthys trucha (Osteichthyes: Percichthyidae) in Patagonia, Argentina. Folia Parasitologica. 50(3): 211-214.
Posterotestes unelen gen. et sp. n. (Digenea: Apocreadiidae) from Percichthys trucha (Osteichthyes: Percichthyidae) in Patagonia, Argentina
Folia Parasitologica
50(3): 211-214
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Posterotestes gen. n. (Digenea: Apocreadiidae, Apocreadiinae) is proposed for specimens with the following features:
spiny body, posterior position of gonads, extension of vitelline follicles up to level of intestinal bifurcation and absent at posttesticular
space, long oesophagus and extension of caeca up to anterior testis. Posterotestes unelen sp. n. is described from the
intestine of the native fish, Percichthys trucha (Cuvier et Valenciennes) (Osteichthyes: Percichthyidae) from Patagonian Andean
lakes.