Abstract
Examination of 60 teleost fishes (9 spp.) for cestodes from the Southeastern Pacific Ocean off Paita (5° 7´S, 81° 11´W) and Salaverry (8° 15´S, 78° 59´W) Peru, resulted in the recovery of eight species of trypanorhynchs, two of which are new. The new species are Pterobothrium acanthotruncatum and Pseudogrillotia peruviana. New host and distribution records are: Dasyrhynchus pacifiais Robinson in Sciaena deliciosa (Tschudi); Poecilancistrium caryophyllum (Diesing) from Sciaena gilberti Abbott; Floriceps saccatus Cuvier from Centropomus nigrescens Günther; Tentacularia coryphaena Bosc from Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus) and Centropomus nigrescens: Callitetrarhynchus gracilis (Rudolphi) in Sciaena deliciosa, Polyclemus peruanus (Steindachner) and Hemilutjanus macrophtalmos (Tschudi); Lacistorhynchus tenuis (Van Beneden) from Odontesthes regia (Humboldt).
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