New records for helminth species recovered from elasmobranch fishes in Brazil are established. Digenean and acanthocephalan parasites of elasmobranch fishes are reported from the southern coast of Brazil:
Otodistomum veliporum
(Creplin, 1837) Stafford, 1904 (Digenea: Azygiidae) in the stomach and spiral valve of
Dipturus
trachydermus and in the spiral valve of
Squatina
sp. Cystacanths and juveniles of the acanthocephalans
Corynosoma australe
Johnston, 1937 and
Corynosoma
sp., in the spiral valve of
Squatina sp.,
Galeorhinus galeus
and
Hexanchus griseus
and in the stomach of
Squalus megalops
; a juvenile of
Gorgorhynchus
sp., in the spiral valve of Sphyrna zygaena.
Dipturus trachydermus
and
Squatina sp. are new host records for
O. veliporum. Digeneans and acanthocephalans are reported for the first time parasitizing elasmobranch fishes in Brazil.
