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Benatti D, Moraes MFD, Pacheco CAA, Machado DMR, Oliveira WJ, Perin PP, Andrietti LF, Cândido Júnior JF, Vogliotti A, Tebaldi JH, Hoppe EGL. Endoparasites of marsupials in fragments of the Atlantic rainforest, western Paraná State, Brazil. REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE PARASITOLOGIA VETERINARIA = BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY : ORGAO OFICIAL DO COLEGIO BRASILEIRO DE PARASITOLOGIA VETERINARIA 2023; 32:e005823. [PMID: 37851716 DOI: 10.1590/s1984-29612023056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2023] [Accepted: 08/16/2023] [Indexed: 10/20/2023]
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Knowledge of taxonomy and biodiversity of parasites is fundamental to better understand ecosystem dynamics. The objective of this study was to describe the helminth fauna of two species of marsupials in five fragments of the Atlantic rainforest in the western region of Paraná State, Brazil. In a total of 4050 trap-nights, the animals were captured using Sherman, Tomahawk, and Pitfall traps, euthanized, necropsied, and their organs inspected for helminths. After identification of the parasites, descriptors of infection, such as prevalence, mean abundance, mean intensity, and range of intensity, were calculated. Collectively, six helminth species were observed in 18 animals. The following five species were observed in Marmosa paraguayana: Viannaia hamata (58.8%), Gracilioxyuris agilisis (52.9%), Travassostrongylus sextus (17.6%), Oncicola luehei (5.9%), and Pritchardia boliviensis (5.9%). Whereas the following two species were observed in Monodelphis dimidiata: Trichohelix tuberculata (100%) and Travassostrongylus sextus (100%). This study represents a new locality record for all helminths described herein, and a new host for four helminth species. This is the first report on the helminth fauna of Monodelphis dimidiata, expanding knowledge about marsupials in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.
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- Danise Benatti
- Laboratório de Enfermidades Parasitárias - LabEPar, Departamento de Patologia, Reprodução e Saúde Única - DPRSU, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias - FCAV, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Jaboticabal, SP, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Enfermidades Parasitárias - LabEPar, Departamento de Patologia, Reprodução e Saúde Única - DPRSU, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias - FCAV, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Jaboticabal, SP, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Enfermidades Parasitárias - LabEPar, Departamento de Patologia, Reprodução e Saúde Única - DPRSU, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias - FCAV, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Jaboticabal, SP, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Enfermidades Parasitárias - LabEPar, Departamento de Patologia, Reprodução e Saúde Única - DPRSU, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias - FCAV, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Jaboticabal, SP, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Enfermidades Parasitárias - LabEPar, Departamento de Patologia, Reprodução e Saúde Única - DPRSU, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias - FCAV, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Jaboticabal, SP, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Enfermidades Parasitárias - LabEPar, Departamento de Patologia, Reprodução e Saúde Única - DPRSU, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias - FCAV, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Jaboticabal, SP, Brasil
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- Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana - UNILA, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Enfermidades Parasitárias - LabEPar, Departamento de Patologia, Reprodução e Saúde Única - DPRSU, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias - FCAV, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Jaboticabal, SP, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Enfermidades Parasitárias - LabEPar, Departamento de Patologia, Reprodução e Saúde Única - DPRSU, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias - FCAV, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Jaboticabal, SP, Brasil
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Alnaqeb H, Greiman SE, Vandegrift KJ, Campbell ML, Meagher S, Jiménez FA. A molecular reconstruction of holarctic Heligmosomidae reveals a new species of Heligmosomoides (Nematoda: Heligmosomidae) in Peromyscus maniculatus (Neotominae) from Canada. SYST BIODIVERS 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2022.2046199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Haitham Alnaqeb
- School of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 62901-6501 IL, USA
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- Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, 4324 Old Register Rd, Statesboro, 30460 GA, USA
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- Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 16802 PA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Resources, Museum of Southwestern Biology, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 87131 NM, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Western Illinois University, Macomb, 61455 IL, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 62901-6501 IL, USA
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Ramírez-Cañas SA, López-Caballero JD, Mata-López R. Morphological and Molecular Data Reveal Two New Species of Viannaia (Nematoda: Viannaiidae), Parasitizing Opossums (Mammalia: Didelphidae) in Mexico. J Parasitol 2021; 107:388-403. [PMID: 33971012 DOI: 10.1645/18-199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Two new species of Viannaia from the intestine of the North American opossums, Didelphis virginiana (Virginia opossum), and Philander opossum (gray four-eyed opossum), are described based on morphological and molecular data, through an integrative taxonomic approach. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference analyses for each dataset and the concatenated dataset were performed using a mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (COI) gene, and the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer region (ITS1-5.8S-ITS2). The phylogenetic analyses revealed 2 new species that occur in Mexico, one from the western state of Colima and another from the southern state of Chiapas. Our phylogenetic trees for both molecular markers and concatenated datasets yielded similar topologies with high bootstrap values and posterior probabilities. Viannaia is recovered as a monophyletic group, but the family Viannaiidae appears as non-monophyletic, due to the position of Travassostrongylus scheibelorum, similar to previous studies. Finally, the morphology of Viannaia and Hoineffia is discussed.
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- Sara Angélica Ramírez-Cañas
- Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Avenida Universidad 3000, Ciudad Universitaria, C. P. 04510, Mexico City, Mexico.,Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado 70-153, C. P. 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Avenida Universidad 3000, Ciudad Universitaria, C. P. 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Avenida Universidad 3000, Ciudad Universitaria, C. P. 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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Falcón-Ordaz J, García-Prieto L, Cordero-Lezama AY. Nematode Parasites of Rodents (Sigmodontinae) and Update of Those Recorded in Other Wild Mammals from Costa Rica. COMP PARASITOL 2019. [DOI: 10.1654/1525-2647-86.1.41] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Jorge Falcón-Ordaz
- Laboratorio de Morfología Animal, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Ciudad Universitaria,
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- Laboratorio de Helmintología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Ap. Po
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Weirich JM, Catzeflis F, Jiménez FA. Guerrerostrongylus marginalis n. sp. (Trichostrongyloidea: Heligmonellidae) from the Guianan arboreal mouse (Oecomys auyantepui) from French Guiana. Parasite 2016; 23:9. [PMID: 26956220 PMCID: PMC4783586 DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2016009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2015] [Accepted: 02/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Based on the number and arrangement of cuticular ridges and configuration of the dorsal ray, nematode specimens collected from the small intestine of eight Guianan arboreal mice, Oecomys auyantepui (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae), in French Guiana are herein described and characterized. Guerrerostrongylus marginalis n. sp. (Heligmosomoidea: Heligmonellidae) shows a synlophe consisting of more than 40 ridges and a unique bursal arrangement with ray 8 (externo-dorsal) extending to the edge of the bursal margin, and appearing more prominent than the dorsal ray. This bursal arrangement is common in members of Hassalstrongylus Durette-Desset, 1971, but uncommon in the other four species in Guerrerostrongylus Sutton & Durette-Desset, 1991. The placement of the new species in Guerrerostrongylus is based on the number and nature of cuticular ridges and the ray arrangement and symmetry of the caudal bursa. Diagnostic characteristics of Guerrerostrongylus marginalis n. sp. include the length of ray 8 relative to bursal margin, the relative size of the spicules and vestibule, and the number of eggs in the uterus. We propose an amendment to the generic diagnosis of Guerrerostrongylus to modify the characters of the long rays 6 (postero-lateral), rays 8 (externo-dorsal), and dorsal ray as diagnostic, since at least ray 6 appears to be short in two different species in the genus, namely G. ulysi Digiani, Notarnicola & Navone, 2012 and G. marginalis n. sp.
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- Jessica M. Weirich
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Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale IL
62901-6501 USA
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CNRS UMR 5554, Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution, Case Courrier 064, Université Montpellier Montpellier
34095 France
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Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale IL
62901-6501 USA
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Caspeta-Mandujano JM, Peralta-Rodríguez JL, Galindo-García MG, Jiménez FA. A new species of Torrestrongylus (Trichostrongylidae, Anoplostrongylinae) from Macrotus waterhousii (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in Central Mexico. Parasite 2015; 22:29. [PMID: 26514594 PMCID: PMC4626622 DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2015029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2015] [Accepted: 10/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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A new species of nematode, Torrestrongylus tetradorsalis n. sp., is described herein, based on specimens recovered from the small intestine of the leaf-nosed bat, Macrotus waterhousii, from the Biosphere Reserve "Sierra de Huautla" in the state of Morelos, Mexico. The new species is included in Torrestrongylus because it features a bursa of the type 3 - 2, a divided cephalic vesicle with an anterior half in the shape of an umbrella, and a posterior widened half. The new species can be distinguished from the only other congener T. torrei Pérez-Vigueras, 1935 by four key features: first, by the absence of cervical alae in both males and females; second, by the relatively longer second half of the cephalic cap; third, by the configuration of the dorsal ray, that does not have a medial terminal ray, and finally, by the structure of the spicules. This is the second species in the genus, previously known from bats of the families Phyllostomidae and Molossidae in Cuba, and now in Mexico.
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- Juan Manuel Caspeta-Mandujano
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Laboratorio de Parasitología de Animales Silvestres, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos Av. Universidad No. 1001, Col. Chamilpa C.P. 62210
Cuernavaca Morelos Mexico
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Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos Av. Universidad No. 1001, Col. Chamilpa C.P. 62210
Cuernavaca Morelos Mexico
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Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos Av. Universidad No. 1001, Col. Chamilpa C.P. 62210
Cuernavaca Morelos Mexico
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Laboratorio de Parasitología de Animales Silvestres, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos Av. Universidad No. 1001, Col. Chamilpa C.P. 62210
Cuernavaca Morelos Mexico
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Chilton NB, Huby-Chilton F, Koehler AV, Gasser RB, Beveridge I. The phylogenetic relationships of endemic Australasian trichostrongylin families (Nematoda: Strongylida) parasitic in marsupials and monotremes. Parasitol Res 2015; 114:3665-73. [PMID: 26156243 DOI: 10.1007/s00436-015-4594-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2015] [Accepted: 06/17/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Acosta-Virgen K, López-Caballero J, García-Prieto L, Mata-López R. Helminths of three species of opossums (Mammalia, Didelphidae) from Mexico. Zookeys 2015:131-52. [PMID: 26257556 PMCID: PMC4523750 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.511.9571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2015] [Accepted: 06/05/2015] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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From August 2011 to November 2013, 68 opossums (8 Didelphis sp., 40 Didelphisvirginiana, 15 Didelphismarsupialis, and 5 Philanderopossum) were collected in 18 localities from 12 Mexican states. A total of 12,188 helminths representing 21 taxa were identified (6 trematodes, 2 cestodes, 3 acanthocephalans and 10 nematodes). Sixty-six new locality records, 9 new host records, and one species, the trematode Brachylaimadidelphus, is added to the composition of the helminth fauna of the opossums in Mexico. These data, in conjunction with previous records, bring the number of taxa parasitizing the Mexican terrestrial marsupials to 41. Among these species, we recognized a group of helminths typical of didelphids in other parts of the Americas. This group is constituted by the trematode Rhopaliascoronatus, the acanthocephalan Oligacanthorhynchusmicrocephalus and the nematodes Cruziatentaculata, Gnathostomaturgidum, and Turgidaturgida. In general, the helminth fauna of each didelphid species showed a stable taxonomic composition with respect to previously sampled sites. This situation suggests that the rate of accumulation of helminth species in the inventory of these 3 species of terrestrial marsupials in the Neotropical portion of Mexico is decreasing; however, new samplings in the Nearctic portion of this country will probably increase the richness of the helminthological inventory of this group of mammals.
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- Karla Acosta-Virgen
- Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, C.P.04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Colección Nacional de Helmintos, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CP 04510, Mexico City, Mexico ; Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado 70-153, C.P. 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Colección Nacional de Helmintos, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CP 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, C.P.04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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