A peer-reviewed open-access journal ZooKeys 650: 1–205 (2017) Annotated checklist of fish cestodes from South America 1 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.650.10982 CHECKLIST http://zookeys.pensoft.net Launched to accelerate biodiversity research Annotated checklist of fish cestodes from South America Philippe V. Alves1, Alain de Chambrier2, Tomáš Scholz3, José L. Luque4 1 Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, BR 465, Km 7, 23851-970, Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2 Natural History Museum of Geneva, CP 6434, CH - 1211 Geneva 6, Switzerland 3 Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic 4 Departamento de Parasitologia Animal, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, CP 74.540, BR 465, Km 7, 23851-970, Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Corresponding author: Tomáš Scholz (
[email protected]) Academic editor: B. Georgiev | Received 2 November 2016 | Accepted 21 December 2016 | Published 1 February 2017 http://zoobank.org/CAD92ABE-4626-4206-98E3-E044D45EA9AC Citation: Alves PV, de Chambrier A, Scholz T, Luque JL (2017) Annotated checklist of fish cestodes from South America. ZooKeys 650: 1–205. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.650.10982 Abstract An exhaustive literature search supplemented by a critical examination of records made it possible to pre- sent an annotated checklist of tapeworms (Cestoda) that, as adults or larvae (metacestodes), parasitize fresh- water, brackish water and marine fishes, i.e. cartilaginous and bony fishes, in South America. The current knowledge of their species diversity, host associations and geographical distribution is reviewed.