Type material of Acanthocephala, Nematoda and other non-helminths phyla (Cnidaria, Annelida, and Arthropoda) housed in the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute/ FIOCRUZ (CHIOC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 1979 to 2016.

Delir Corrêa Gomes,Daniela A. Lopes,Marcelo Knoff

doi:10.3897/zookeys.711.14753

Abstract

The third part of the catalogue of type material in the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute/FIOCRUZ (CHIOC), comprising types deposited between 1979 and 2016, is presented to complement the first list of all types that was published in 1979. This part encompasses Acanthocephala, Nematoda and the other non-helminth phyla Cnidaria, Annelida, and Arthropoda. Platyhelminthes was covered in the first (Monogenoidea) and second (Rhabditophora Trematoda and Cestoda) parts of the catalogue published in September 2016 and March 2017, respectively. The present catalogue comprises type material for 116 species distributed across five phyla, nine classes, 50 families, and 80 genera. Specific names are listed systematically, followed by type host, infection site, type locality, and specimens with their collection numbers and references. Species classification and nomenclature are updated.

Highlights

The century-old Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute/FIOCRUZ (CHIOC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, contains helminths that form part of the fauna of Brazil, and other countries, and are from a wide range of hosts captured in a variety of different biomes
All the material is available for consultation, but holotypes are not loaned
All type material is in good condition

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Introduction

The century-old Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute/FIOCRUZ (CHIOC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, contains helminths that form part of the fauna of Brazil, and other countries, and are from a wide range of hosts captured in a variety of different biomes. The samples are holotypes, paratypes, and representative specimens of Platyhelminthes, Acanthocephala, Nematoda, and other nonhelminth phyla. The CHIOC holds around 38,400 samples of helminth parasites from South America and other continents, and represents the largest such collection in Latin America and one of the largest collections worldwide (Rego 1982, Knoff et al 2010). The first catalogue of all type material held in the CHIOC recorded 719 types of helminths (only holotypes or type series): 408 nematodes, 216 digenetic trematodes, 11 monogenoids, 52 acanthocephalans, 28 cestodes, and four of pentastomids (Rego et al 1979). The present catalogue is the third list of type species held in this collection, and encompasses those of Acanthocephala, Nematoda, and the non-helminth phyla Cnidaria, Annelida and Arthropoda that have been deposited in CHIOC since 1979. The purpose of this article is to inform the scientific community about the types deposited in CHIOC as of December 1, 2016, and follows the articles of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999)

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