Corynosoma australe Johnston 1937
- Dataset
- A checklist of the helminth parasites of marine mammals from Argentina
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Acanthocephala
- class
- Palaeacanthocephala
- order
- Polymorphida
- family
- Polymorphidae
- genus
- Corynosoma
- species
- Corynosoma australe
Corynosoma australe Johnston 1937
Corynosoma australe Johnston, 1937
Host: Hydrurga leptonyx (de Blainville)
Site in host: stomach
Locality: Bahía San Sebastián (53°17'S, 68°28'W), Tierra del Fuego province
References: present study
Notes: A single degraded juvenile specimen of C. australe was collected.
Host: Lagenorhynchus obscurus (Gray)
Site in host: intestine
Locality: Patagonia
References: Dans et al. (1999)
Host: Phocoena dioptrica Lahille
Site in host: intestine
Locality: Playa Unión, Chubut province
Specimens in collections: MML (accession numbers not provided)V
References: Berón-Vera et al. (2008)
Host: Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais & d’Orbigny)
Site in host: intestine
Locality: Claromecó (38º52'S, 60º05'W) and Necochea (38º27'S, 58º50'W), Buenos Aires province
Specimens in collections: DAB (accession numbers not provided)V
References: Aznar et al. (1994; 1995; 2012)
Notes: Aznar et al. (1994; 1995) reported few specimens of an unidentified species of a polymorphid acanthocephalan from the intestine of franciscanas P. blainvillei. These acanthocephalans were later identified as C. australe by Aznar et al. (2012).
Host: Tursiops truncatus (Montagu)
Site in host: intestine
Locality: Playa Unión (43°24'S, 65°03'W), Chubut province; northern Patagonia (40°30'– 43°30'S, 64°–65°W)
Specimens in collections: MML (accession numbers not provided)V; MZU (accession numbers not provided)V
References: Sánchez et al. (2002) and Romero et al. (2014)
Notes: Sánches et al. (2002) reported adult forms of C. australe from the intestines of a single specimen of bottlenose dolphin T. truncatus. Aznar et al. (2012) suggest that C. australe cannot apparently reproduce, nor even grow, in cetaceans. Therefore, we re-assigned these specimens as juvenile forms of C. australe.