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Revista Peruana de Biología

On-line version ISSN 1727-9933

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GOMEZ-PUERTA, Luis A; SALAS, Martha Y.; LOPEZ-URBINA, Maria T  and  GONZALEZ, Armando E. Morphological and molecular diagnosis of Cyclocoelum mutabile (Trematoda: Cyclocoelidae) in Peru . Rev. peru biol. [online]. 2018, vol.25, n.3, pp.315-320. ISSN 1727-9933.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15381/rpb.v25i3.15214.

Cyclocoelum mutabile , a digenea of the family Cyclocoelidae, was found parasitizing the air sacs of a common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus), from the surroundings of the Pantanos de Villa Wildlife Refuge, located in Chorrillos, a district of Lima, Peru. A total of 7 parasites were collected and identified as C. mutabile by morphological methods. Diagnosis was confirmed by molecular analysis and partially amplified mitochondrial genes cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (cox1) and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 1 (nad1). Nucleotide sequences from the isolates were compared with previous sequences from GenBank, and they showed a high similarity between them (> 96%). This finding constitutes the first record of C. mutabile in Peru. Also, this work makes a brief description of the parasite, as well as the discussion of its hosts and geographic distribution in South America.

Keywords : Trematoda; Cyclocoelidae; Cyclocoelum mutabile; Gruiformes; Gallinula chloropus.

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