Two species of intestinal Capillariidae were hitherto known from the Neotropic cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus, Baruscapillaria spiculata (Freitas, 1933), and appendiculata 1933). The original descriptions are very short brief, further reports both scarce and/or confusing. This paper provides a morphological redescription molecular characterization, based on partial 18S rDNA gene, B. specim...
