Results
All morphometric variables (total length, number ofhead-bulb hooklets, position of the cervical papillae, num-ber of transverse striae, number of intestinal cells, andaverage number of nuclei per intestinal cell) of the AdvL3 that were recovered from turtles corresponded to the vari-ables reported for G. binucleatum (Alvarez-Guerrero andAlba-Hurtado, 2007)
The base sequence of ITS-2 rDNAof the larvae showed a 0.48% divergence (2 to 419 basepairs) from the sequence reported in GenBank (AY734632,AY061740 and AB181159) for G. binucleatum.