Kritsky
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| Genus: | Kritsky Orelis-Ribeiro & Bullard, 2016
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| Species: | K. platyrhynchi
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| Kritsky platyrhynchi (Guidelli, Isaac & Pavanelli, 2002[1]) Orelis-Ribeiro & Bullard, 2016
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Kritsky is a genus of digeneans in the family Aporocotylidae or blood flukes.[2] The name of the genus honours the American parasitologist Delane C. Kritsky.
The genus includes the single species Kritsky platyrhynchi (Guidelli, Isaac & Pavanelli, 2002) Orelis-Ribeiro & Bullard, 2016, which is a parasite of the body cavity of the porthole shovelnose catfish, Hemisorubim platyrhynchos (Pimelodidae) in Peru.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Guidelli, G. M.; Isaac, A.; Pavanelli, G. C. (2002). "Sanguinicola platyrhynchi n. sp. (Digenea: Sanguinicolidae) parasite of visceral cavity of Hemisorubim platyrhynchos (Valenciennes, 1840) (Pisces: Pimelodidae) from the floodplain of the upper Paraná River, Brazil". Brazilian Journal of Biology. 62 (4b): 801–806. doi:10.1590/S1519-69842002000500009. PMID 12659031.
- ^ WoRMS (2018). Kritsky Orelis-Ribeiro & Bullard, 2016. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871002 on 2018-09-23
- ^ Orélis-Ribeiro, Raphael; Bullard, Stephen A. (2016). "Two new genera of fish blood flukes (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) from catfishes in the Peruvian Amazon". Journal of Parasitology. 102 (3): 357–368. doi:10.1645/15-905. ISSN 0022-3395. PMID 26859799. S2CID 23836382.
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