Mexicana atlantica Luque, Amato & Takemoto, 1992

Lopes, Daniela A., Mainenti, Adriana, Sanches, Magda, Knoff, Marcelo & Gomes, Delir Correa, 2016, Type material of Platyhelminthes (Monogenoidea) housed in the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute / FIOCRUZ (CHIOC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 1979 to 2016, ZooKeys 616, pp. 1-75 : 33

Taxon classification Animalia Dactylogyridea Dactylogyridae

Mexicana atlantica Luque, Amato & Takemoto, 1992

Type host.

Haemulon steindachneri (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) ( Osteichthyes: Haemulidae ).

Infection site.

Distal portion of gill filaments.

Type locality.

Brazil, Rio de Janeiro State, Sepetiba Bay, Itacuruçá (22°51'S, 43°56'W).

Paratypes.

CHIOC 33109, 33110.

Remarks.

Holotype and other paratypes deposited in the USNM collection.

Reference.

Luque et al. (1992).