Type material of Platyhelminthes housed in the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute/ FIOCRUZ (CHIOC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 1979 to 2016 (Rhabditophora, Trematoda and Cestoda).

Delir Corrêa Gomes,Marcelo Knoff,Daniela A Lopes,Adriana Mainenti

doi:10.3897/zookeys.662.11685

Abstract

The second part of the catalogue of type material deposited in the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute/ FIOCRUZ (CHIOC), between 1979 and 2016, is presented, to complement the first list of all types that was published in 1979. This part includes Platyhelminthes other than monogenoids, which were covered in the first part published in September 2016. The present catalogue comprises type material for 104 species, distributed across three classes, 40 families and 75 genera. Species names are listed systematically, followed by type host, infection site, type locality and specimens with their collection numbers and references. The classification and the nomenclature of the species have been 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, from a wide range of hosts that were caught in different biomes
The first catalogue of all type material held in the CHIOC recorded 719 types of helminths: 408 of nematodes, 216 of digenetic trematodes, 11 of monogenoids, 52 of acanthocephalans, 28 of cestodes and four of pentastomids (Rego et al 1979)
This database and bibliographic survey presents the diversity of Rhabditophora, Trematoda and Cestoda types in CHIOC, from Brazil and other countries in the world, covering more than 35 years of parasitological studies

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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, from a wide range of hosts that were caught in different biomes. The CHIOC holds around 38.400 samples of helminth parasites from South America and other continents. It is the biggest collection in Latin America and it is among the largest collections at a worldwide reference level (Rego 1982, Knoff et al 2010). Lopes et al (2016) published another catalogue listing 203 type species of Monogenoidea. The present catalogue is the second list of type species held in this collection, and it includes platyhelminths of the classes Rhabditophora, Trematoda and Cestoda that have been deposited in CHIOC since 1979. We have followed the articles of the Code (ICZN 1999)

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