TREMATODOS DE LAS TORTUGAS DE MEXICO. IX. TELORCHIS BRAVOAE N. SP.

Resumen

A new species of the genus Telorchis Lá¼he, 1899, is described from the small intestine of the freshwater turtle, Staurotypus triporcatus (Wiegmann), from rivers of southern Mexico. Telorchis bravoae n. sp., is similar to T. clava (Diesing, 1850), T. criptobranchi (McMullen et Roudabush, 1936) and to T. patonianus (Caballero, 1935) in the preovarian and preacetabular extension of vitellaria, but it may be differentiated from the first of these species by the size and ratios of the cirrus pouch and metraterm as well as by the distance between the ovary and the posterior portion of the cirrus pouch and by the presence of a well developed esophagus in T. bravoae n. sp. which is lacking in T. clava; it differs from the second species in size of the cirrus pouch and metraterm and in the ratios of sizes of these two organs; and, it can be distinguished from T. patonianus in which species the vitellaria do not extend to testicular level.