Travassiella avitellina Rego & Pavanelli, 1987

Lopes, Daniela A., Mainenti, Adriana, Knoff, Marcelo & Gomes, Delir Correa, 2017, Type material of Platyhelminthes housed in the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute / FIOCRUZ (CHIOC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 1979 to 2016 (Rhabditophora, Trematoda and Cestoda), ZooKeys 662, pp. 1-48 : 32

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scientific name	Travassiella avitellina Rego & Pavanelli, 1987
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Type host.

Zungaro zungaro (= Paulicea luetkeni )

Infection site.

Median intestine.

Type locality.

Brazil, Mato Grosso State, Salobra.

Holotype.

CHIOC 32259.

Remarks.

Species synonymized with Proteocephalus jandia Woodland, 1934, which was transferred to Travassiella Rego & Pavanelli, 1987 as Travassiella jandia (Woodland, 1934) n. comb. by de Chambrier et al. (2014). However, T. avitellina is accepted in the Global Cestode Database (2016).

References.

Rego and Pavanelli (1987), de Chambrier et al. (2014), Global Cestode Database (2016).