Taxon classification Animalia Dactylogyridea Dactylogyridae

Mymarothecium boegeri Cohen & Kohn, 2005

Type host.

Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier, 1816) ( Osteichthyes : Serrasalmidae ).

Infection site.

Gills.

Type locality.

Brazil, CearĂ¡ State, Pentecoste, Aquaria of the Research Center in Aquiculture "Rodolfo von Ihering, DNOCS".

Holotype.

CHIOC 36453.

Paratypes.

CHIOC 36454, 36455, 36456, 36457.

Reference.

Cohen and Kohn (2005).