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Polystoma knoffi n. sp. and Polystoma travassosi n. sp. (Monogenea: Polystomatidae): naming museum-archived specimens from Brazil

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In 1978, Kohn and co-workers deposited several polystome (Monogenea) specimens infecting several Brazilian anurans [Trachycephalus mesophaeus (Hensel), T. nigromaculatus Tschudi and Leptodactylus pentadactylus (Laurenti)] within the Helminthological Collection of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil. No specimen was formally described but we herein identified three morphotypes and formally describe two of them (Polystoma knoffi n. sp. and P. tavassosi n. sp.). These are respectively the 12th and 13th species of Polystoma described from South America. For both species, the intestine forms a reticulated network, a characteristic unique to most Neotropical species of Polystoma.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the following individuals and agencies for their support in this study: Marcelo Knoff and Daniela de Almeida Lopes from the Helminthological Collection of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Brazil) allowed access to specimens under their care. Professor Claude Combes (Perpignan) kindly provided material for examination. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their contribution to this manuscript.

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This study was partly supported by a research grant from the North-West University (South Africa), the Pró-reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação from the Universidade Federal do Pará, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifíco e Tecnológico (CNPq) and Fundação Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES).

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  2. South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Somerset Street, Grahamstown, 6139, South Africa

    Louis Heyns du Preez

  3. Laboratório de Sistemática e Coevolução, Instituto de Estudos Costeiros, Universidade Federal do Pará, Campus Universitário de Bragança, Alameda Leandro Ribeiro s/n, Bragança, PA, 68600–000, Brazil

    Marcus Vinicius Domingues

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du Preez, L.H., Domingues, M.V. Polystoma knoffi n. sp. and Polystoma travassosi n. sp. (Monogenea: Polystomatidae): naming museum-archived specimens from Brazil. Syst Parasitol 96, 755–765 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-019-09890-8

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