Brasergasilus bifurcatus Santos, Thatcher & Brasil-Sato, 2007

Lopes, Daniela A., Gomes, Delir Correa & Knoff, Marcelo, 2017, Type material of Acanthocephala, Nematoda and other non-helminths phyla (Cnidaria, Annelida, and Arthropoda) housed in the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute / FIOCRUZ (CHIOC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 1979 to 2016, ZooKeys 711, pp. 1-52 : 33

Brasergasilus bifurcatus Santos, Thatcher & Brasil-Sato, 2007

Type host.

Pygocentrus piraya (Cuvier, 1819)

Infection site.

Gill filaments and nasal fossae.

Type locality.

Brazil, Minas Gerais State, Upper São Francisco River, Três Marias Reservoir (18°12'59"S, 45°17'34"W).

Holotype.

♀ CHIOC 36841.

Paratypes.

CHIOC 35502 (♀), 35503 (♀), 35504 (♀), 36842 (♀), 36843 (♀), 36844 (♀).

Remarks.

CHIOC 35504, 36843, and 36844 collected from the serrasalmid fish Serrasalmus brandtii Lütken, 1875.

Reference.

Santos et al. (2007).