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Jr, Joaber Pereira & Boeger, Walter A., 2005, Larval tapeworms (Platyhelminthes, Cestoda) from sciaenid fishes of the southern coast of Brazil, Zoosystema 27 (1), pp. 5-25 : 22-24

Plerocercoid larvae similar to those found in the present study from Macrodon ancylodon were reported from Micropogonias undulatus (Lin-

Cestoda (Platyhelminthes) of Sciaenidae from Brazil

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naeus, 1766) in the Gulf of Mexico by Overstreet (1977) and in Micropogonias furnieri off the coast of Rio de Janeiro by São Clemente (1986b) and coast of Rio Grande do Sul by Pereira (1993).

Aknowledgements

The authors wish to thank Ian Beveridge, University of Melbourne, Australia, who provided improvements for the manuscript; Dely Noronha and Luiz C. Muniz, curators of the Helminthological Collection of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, allowed access to material in that collection; Alain de Chambrier, Muséum d’Histoire naturelle de Genève, Switzerland, translated the abstract to French; José Luiz Bastos, Luiz da Hora Silveira, and Altamiro da Hora Silveira donated most of the host fishes. Marco A. Costa, Isabel S. Chaves, and Ieda Quadros provided laboratory support; Rogério T. Vianna M. Sc. assisted with the illustrations