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Andracantha tunitae (Weiss, 1914) Zdzitowiecki, 1989

Halajian, Ali, Smales, Lesley R., Tavakol, Sareh, Smit, Nico J. & Wilmien J. Luus-Powell,, 2018, Checklist of acanthocephalan parasites of South Africa, ZooKeys 789, pp. 1-18 : 1

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 https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.789.27710

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 lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9C50AE22-CD06-478C-B81A-D74E5F0E384D

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scientific name

 Andracantha tunitae (Weiss, 1914) Zdzitowiecki, 1989
status

 

Andracantha tunitae (Weiss, 1914) Zdzitowiecki, 1989 View in CoL

Corynosoma tunitae Weiss, 1914

Host.

Microcarbo africanus (Gmelin, 1789) (Long-tailed Cormorant) ( Phalacrocoracidae ).

Locality.

Dyer Island, South Africa ( Van Cleave 1937).

Notes.

Van Cleave (1937) is mentioning that he looked at a large number of immature worms and he tentatively assigning them to C. tunitae .

Specimens