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Contribution to the knowledge of the Helminth fauna of Alfenas, Minas Gerais State, Brazil

Several helminths were recovered, by the authors, from 176 Vertebrates shot at the outskirts of Alfenas, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, duringperiodical excursions, from 1967 to 1971. the animals were not chosen in a standard number of individuals within each Class. The authors tried to get a whole strin of Vertebrates in general. The species here listed are redescribed; some of them only refered, for either they were alredy issued in preceding papers by the authors, or are too well known by now, to justify a revision. Concerning on the Cestodes, their purpose was to emphasize the morfology, based on the imcomplete original descriptions of the species majority. The following items are discussed; Class frequency of Vertebrates shot; general parasitism by helminthic group. (This percentage is calculated, based on the infected animals and not on the whole set.); parasitism by helminthic group in each Vertebrate Class. Besides, they make Subulura freitaslauroi Pinto, 1970; synounnym of Subulura alfenensis Pinto, 1969 and propose a new combination for Taenia pyramidata (Rudolphi, 1819), give new host records for Diplotriaena henryi: Blanc, 1918, Dendouteria pilherodiae Mahon, 1956, Unciunia trichocirrosa Skrjabin, 1914 and Biuterina campanulata (Rudolphi, 1819), D. henryi and U. trichocirrosa are also refered in Brazil for the first time. They add original camera lucida drawings of all the redescribed helminths, include personal comments on some species, as well as present a list of the inspected animals, forming thus the subject matter of the present paper.


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