Allocreadium pichi Flores, Brugni & Ostrowski de Núñez, 2004

Type host. Galaxias maculatus (Jenyns) (Pisces: Galaxiidae).

Site of infection. Intestine.

Type locality. Argentina, Río Negro Province, Lago Moreno (41º06ʹS, 71º32ʹW).

Paratypes: MLP 5301, MLP 5302 (2 specimens).

Remarks. Holotype and two paratypes deposited in the Colección Nacional de Parasitología in the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, Buenos Aires, Argentina; sixteen paratypes and two sets of serial sections deposited in the Colección Parasitológica del Centro Regional Universitario Bariloche, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina; two paratypes deposited in the British Museum (Natural History) Collections of The Natural History Museum, London, UK. Curran et al. (2006) considered this a second species in the yet unnamed Creptotrema –like genus, and Viozzi et al. (2009) maintain it in the original genus until new taxonomic and molecular comparisons are done.

References. Flores et al. (2004).