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 Lopes, Daniela A. Mainenti, Adriana Sanches, Magda Knoff, Marcelo Gomes, Delir Correa ZooKeys 2016 616 1 75 Franca, Isaac, Pavanelli & Takemoto, 2003 Franca, Isaac, Pavanelli & Takemoto 2003 Monogenea Dactylogyridae Demidospermus CoL Animalia Demidospermus mandi Dactylogyridea 27 28 Platyhelminthes species mandi  Taxon classification Animalia Dactylogyridea Dactylogyridae  Type host.  Iheringichthys labrosus  Infection site. Gills.  Type locality. Brazil, upper ParanaRiver floodplain ( 22°43'S, 53°10'W).  Holotype. CHIOC 34586 a.  Paratypes. CHIOC 34586 b, 34589, 34590, 34591, 34592, 34593 a-b.  Remarks. Some authors considered the species to be a synonym of Demidospermus leptosynophallusKritsky & Gutierrez, 1998 ( Cohen and Kohn 2008a, Monteiro et al. 2010a). Takemoto et al. (2009)referred to it as Demidospermus mandi.  References.   Francaet al. (2003), Cohen and Kohn (2008a), Takemoto et al. (2009), Monteiro et al. (2010a).