Neoechinorhynchus (Neoechinorhynchus) brentnickoli Monks, Pulido-Flores & Violante-González, 2011

Pinacho-Pinacho, Carlos Daniel, Sereno-Uribe, Ana L., León, Gerardo Pérez-Ponce De & García-Varela, Martín, 2015, Checklist of the species of Neoechinorhynchus (Acanthocephala: Neoechinorhynchidae) in fishes and turtles in Middle-America, and their delimitation based on sequences of the 28 S rDNA, Zootaxa 3985 (1), pp. 98-116 : 101-102

Neoechinorhynchus (Neoechinorhynchus) brentnickoli Monks, Pulido-Flores & Violante-González, 2011

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Mexico: BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR: Oasis San José del Cabo (23°3’32’’N 109°41’28.8’’W; 23°3’30.8’’N 109°41’28.1’’W); Dormitator latifrons , Eleotris picta ( Méndez et al. 2010). Todos los Santos (23°26’14.3’’N 110°14’22.7’’W); Dormitator latifrons (this study). COLIMA: Laguna de Cuyutlán (19°2’58.6’’N 104°15’58.2’’W); Dormitator latifrons ( Pinacho-Pinacho et al. 2012) . GUERRERO: Laguna de Tres Palos (16°41’0’’N 99°37’00’’W; 16°48’0’’N 99°47’0’’W; 16°47’47’’N 99°44’30’’W; 16°47’00’’N 99°39’00’’W); Dormitator latifrons ( Garrido-Olvera et al. 2004; Violante-González et al. 2007; Martínez-Aquino et al. 2009; Monks et al. 2011; García-Varela et al. 2011; Pinacho-Pinacho et al. 2012); Centropomus nigrescens , Centropomus robalito, Diapterus peruvianus, Cichlasoma trimaculatum , Gobiomorus maculatus , Eleotris picta, Ctenogobius sagittula and Lutjanus argentiventris (Violante-González et al. 2007) . Laguna de Coyuca (16°57’0’’N 100°2’0’’W); Dormitator latifrons (Violante-González & Aguirre-Macedo 2007; Pinacho-Pinacho et al. 2012); Centropomus nigrescens , Cichlasoma trimaculatum , Eleotris picta , Gobiomorus maculatus and Lutjanus argentiventris (Violante-González & Aguirre-Macedo 2007) . Río Tamarindo, Chautengo (16°38’7.5’’N 99°8’26.4’’W); Dormitator latifrons ( Pinacho-Pinacho et al. 2012) . JALISCO: Río Cuitzmala (19°23’27’’N 104°58’28’’W); Dormitator latifrons ( Martínez-Aquino et al. 2009) ; Agonostomus monticola ( Mayén-Peña 2003) . Estero Chamela (19°31’20’’N 104°4’53’’W; 19°31’0’’N 105°6’0’’W); Dormitator latifrons ( Martínez-Aquino et al. 2009; Monks et al. 2011). Marismas de Chalacatepec; Dormitator latifrons ( Mayén-Peña 2003) . Río San Nicolás; Dormitator latifrons ( Mayén-Peña 2003) . MICHOACAN: Estero Barra de Pichi (17°58’41.5’’N 102°19’30’’W); Dormitator latifrons ( Pinacho-Pinacho et al. 2012) . Estero Mexcalhuacan (18°3’21.5’’N 102°39’29.8’’W); Dormitator latifrons ( Pinacho-Pinacho et al. 2012) . Estero Huahua (18°10’39.7’’N 103°0’26.3’’W); Dormitator latifrons ( Pinacho-Pinacho et al. 2012) . Estero Boca de Apiza (18°41’14.46’’N 103°44’4.96’’W); Dormitator latifrons ( Pinacho-Pinacho et al. 2012) . NAYARIT: Nuevo Vallarta (20°40’54.8’’N 105°16’46.1’’W); Dormitator latifrons (this study). SINALOA: El Huizache (23°6’47.2’’N 106°13’45’’W); Dormitator latifrons (this study). Vía Ferrea, Escuinapa (22°49’50.1’’N 104°48’19.4’’W); Dormitator latifrons (this study). Mazatlán (23°13’0’’N 106°25’0’’W); Dormitator latifrons ( Monks et al. 2011) . Topolobampo (25°36’10’’N 109°1’13’’W); Dormitator latifrons (this study).

Specimens deposited. CNHE (8586, 8178, 8175, 8179, 8589, 8174, 8173, 8177, 8176, 8587, 8588, 7540, 7537, 7188, 7142, 7141, 6819, 6817, 6816, 6766, 6121, 6120, 6119, 6118, 6077, 6073, 5989, 4920, 4347).

Notes. This species was originally recognized as a cryptic species of N. (N.) golvani by Martínez-Aquino et al. (2009) as a parasite of eleotrid fishes in coastal waters of the Mexican Pacific Ocean, and later described on morphological grounds by Monks et al. (2011).

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FIGURE 2. Males of species of Neoechinorhynchus known from Middle-America. a) N. (N.) brentnickoli Monks, Pulido- Flores & Violante-González, 2011. b) N. (N.) chimalapasensis Salgado-Maldonado, Caspeta-Mandujano & Martínez-Ramírez, 2010. c) N. (N.) emyditoides Fisher, 1960. d) N. (N.) golvani Salgado-Maldonado, 1978. e) N. (N.) mamesi Pinacho-Pinacho, Pérez-Ponce de León & García-Varela 2012. f) N. (N.) mexicoensis Pinacho-Pinacho, Sereno-Uribe & García-Varela, 2014. g) N. (N.) panucensis Salgado-Maldonado, 2013. h) N. (N.) roseum Salgado-Maldonado, 1978. i) N. (N.) schmidti Barger, Thatcher & Nickol, 2004. Scale bars = 1.0 mm