Zygocotyle lunata (Diesing, 1836) Stunkard, 1917

González-Acuña, Daniel, Moreno, Lucila, Cicchino, Armando, Mironov, Sergey & Kinsella, Mike, 2010, Checklist of the parasites of the black-necked swan, Cygnus melanocoryphus (Aves: Anatidae), with new records from Chile, Zootaxa 2637, pp. 55-68 : 57

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6209585
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scientific name	Zygocotyle lunata (Diesing, 1836) Stunkard, 1917
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Site of infection: cecum.

Localities: Buenos Aires Zoological Garden, Buenos Aires city (captivity); Del Burro lagoon, Buenos Aires Province; Pellegrini Lake, Río Negro Province ( Argentina).

Life history: H1: Biomphalaria peregrina ( d’Orbigny, 1835) (natural host); H. trivolvis , H. anceps ( Menke, 1830) , and H. antrosum ( Conrad, 1834) . B. straminea ( Dunker, 1848) , B. orbignyi Paraense, 1975 , B. tenagophila ( d’Orbigny, 1835) , B. oligoza Paraense, 1974 , B. glabrata ( Say, 1818) (Experimental host). No H2- cercariae encyst on vegetation.

Reference: Digiani (1997).

Comments: Ostrowski de Núñez et al. (2003) fed mice and chicks with metacercariae released from experimentally infected B. peregrina in Argentina and recovered gravid adults.

References

Conrad, T. A. (1834) Descriptions of some new species of fresh water shells from Alabama, Tennessee. American Journal of Science and Arts, 25, 338 - 343.

d'Orbigny, A. (1835) Synopsis terrestrium et fluviatilium molluscoum, in suo per Americam meridionalem itinere collectorum. Magasin de zoologie, 5, 1 - 44.

Digiani, M. C. (1997) El cisne de cuello negro Cygnus melanocorypha: nuevo hospedador de Zygocotyle lunata (Diesing) (Trematoda: Paramphistomidae). Neotropica. Notas Zoologicas Sudamericanas, Buenos Aires, 43, 84.

Dunker, W. (1848) Diagnoses speciarum novarum generis Planorbis collectionis Cumingianae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 16, 40 - 43.

Menke, C. T. (1830) Synopsis methodica molluscorum generum omnium et specierum earum, quae in museo Menkeano adservantur; cum synonymia critica et novarum specierum diagnosibus. Editio altera, auctior et emendatior. Pyrmonti, (Uslar), 26 pp.

Paraense, W. L. (1974) Biomphalaria oligoza N. N. for Tropicobis philippianus (Dunker) sensu Lucena. Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 34, 379 - 386.

Paraense, W. L. (1975) Biomphalaria orbignyi n sp. From Argentina. Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 35, 211 - 222.

Say, T. (1818) Account of two new genera, and several new species, of fresh water and land shells. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1, 276 - 284.

Stunkard, H. W. (1917) Studies on North American Polystomidae, Aspidogastridae and Paramphistomoidea. University of Illinois, 114 pp.