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Quadrigyridae

Quadrigyridae

Van Cleave, 1920

GBIF:124874266

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Family Quadrigyridae Van Cleave, 1920

Machadosentis travassosi Noronha, 1992 —adult Host and habitat: Gymnothorax ocellatus (MAR) Locality: Off Bahia

Reference: Noronha (1992)

Palliolisentis quinqueungulis Machado-Filho, 1960 —adult Hosts and habitat: Triportheus angulatus (FW), Triportheus paranensis (FW) Locality: Salobra, Mato Grosso

References: Machado Filho (1960), Thatcher (1991)

Quadrigyrus brasiliensis Machado Filho, 1941 —adult

Hosts and habitat: Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus (FW), Hoplias malabaricus (FW). Locality: Salobra, Mato Grosso, Upper Parana River/Paraná

References: Machado Filho (1941), Thatcher (1991), Pavanelli et al. (2004)

Quadrigyrus machadoi Fabio, 1983 —larva and adult

Hosts and habitat: Cichla monoculus (FW—larva), Hemisorubim platyrhynchos (FW—larva), Gymnotus sp. (FW—adult), Hoplias malabaricus (FW—adult)

Localities: Parana River/Paraná, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Baía, Mato Grosso do Sul References: Fabio (1983), Weiblen and Brandão (1992), Pavanelli et al. (2001, 2002, 2004), Machado et al. (2000), Guidelli et al. (2003), Isaac et al. (2004), Rosim et al. (2005)

Quadrigyrus torquatus Van Cleave, 1920 — adult

Hosts and habitat: Acestrorhynchus lacustris (FW), Hoplias malabaricus (FW), Leporinus lacustris (FW)

Localities: Upper Parana River/Paraná, Rio de Janeiro

References: Fabio (1983), Thatcher (1991) Pavanelli et al. (2004), Carvalho et al. (2003), Guidelli et al. (2006)

Quadrigyrus sp.—adult

Hosts and habitat: Astyanax altiparanae (FW), Iheringichthys labrosus (FW), Pachyurus squamipennis (FW), Prochilodus lineatus (FW)

Localities: Upper Parana River/Paraná São Francisco River, Mato Grosso, Paraná References: Pavanelli et al. (2004), Lizama et al. (2005), Moreira et al. (2005),Takemoto et al. (2005)

Santos, Cláudia P., Gibson, David I., Tavares, Luiz E. R., Luque, José L. (2008): Checklist of Acanthocephala associated with the fishes of Brazil. Zootaxa 1938: 1-22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184999MagnoliaPress via PlaziNo known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

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Checklist of Acanthocephala associated with the fishes of Brazil

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Santos, Cláudia P., Gibson, David I., Tavares, Luiz E. R., Luque, José L. (2008): Checklist of Acanthocephala associated with the fishes of Brazil. Zootaxa 1938: 1-22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184999

Abstract

Twenty-three genera comprising thirty-four named and thirteen undetermined species of acanthocephalans are associated with one hundred and nineteen marine, brackish and freshwater fish species from Brazil. These are listed, with information on their hosts, habitat, distribution and records. A key to these parasites at the generic level is provided.

Key words: Acanthocephala, biodiversity, checklist, freshwater and marine fishes, key, Neotropics, Brazil

Santos C P, Gibson D I, Tavares L E R, Luque J L, plazi (2008). Checklist of Acanthocephala associated with the fishes of Brazil. Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.184999 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-15.

CC0Published 12/31/2008View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
124874266
Dataset Key
296f6756-9e1c-418a-b744-82bb1c0ed414
Origin
source
Backbone Key
6933
Taxon ID
03A28C32EC44FFB6FF674479FACFFC54.taxon
Last Crawled
6/11/2026
Last Interpreted
6/11/2026