Anenterotrema is a genus of digeneans lacking digestive systems and parasitic in Neotropical bats. We have found a new species of Anenterotrema in silky short-tailed bats (Carollia brevicauda) from Peru. The new Anenterotrema species can be readily differentiated from previously described congeners by a combination of morphological characters. It differs from its morphologically closest cogener, Anenterotrema mesolecitha, in having smaller eggs, a much larger cirrus sac, and in the position of ovary. This is the sixth species of this genus and first to be described from Peru and C. brevicauda.
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1 January 2018
New Anenterotrema Stunkard, 1938 (Digenea: Anenterotrematidae) from Silky Short-Tailed Bat, Carollia brevicauda Schinz, 1821, in Peru
Tyler J. Achatz,
Jorge M. Cardenas-Callirgos,
Vasyl V. Tkach
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Comparative Parasitology
Vol. 85 • No. 1
January 2018
Vol. 85 • No. 1
January 2018
Anenterotrema iannaconei n. sp.
Anenterotrematidae
Carollia brevicauda
Digenea
Peru