Hassalstrongylus aduncus Chandler ...

• Main Authors: Panti-May, Jesús Alonso, Digiani, María Celina, Palomo-Arjona, Eduardo Emir, Gurubel-González, Yessica Margely, Navone, Graciela T., Machain-Williams, Carlos, Hernández-Betancourt, Silvia F., Robles, María Del Rosario
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Nematoda; Chromadorea; Rhabditida; Heligmonellidae; Hassalstrongylus; Hassalstrongylus aduncus; Chandler; Mayan; Robles; Rosario; Silvia; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5949673; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5949673

Hassalstrongylus aduncus (Chandler) (= Longistriata adunca Chandler; = Longistriata norvegica Dikmans) Site of infection: Small intestine Hosts: Rattus rattus and Sigmodon toltecus Locality: Xkalakdzonot Prevalence and mean intensity (range): Rattus rattus 1.7% (2/118) and 3 (2–4), S. toltecus 94.7% (18/19) and 372.8 (13–1037) Specimens deposited: MLP-He 7431, 7442 and CNHE 10713 Comments: The specimens collected in Yucatán presented morphological characteristics in accordance with the original description given by Chandler (1932) for the parasites of S. hispidus and the re-description by Durette- Desset (1972) of parasites from the same host, i.e. 23 cuticular ridges in the synlophe at midbody; subsymmetrical bursa, with two well-developed lateral lobes and small dorsal lobe, bursal pattern type 1-4 with ray 2 well separated and divergent from the ray 3; dorsal ray with a thick trunk at the base and forking in the shape of an inverted U; and spicules 302–639 long with sigmoid tips. In México, H. aduncus has ... : Published as part of Panti-May, Jesús Alonso, Digiani, María Celina, Palomo-Arjona, Eduardo Emir, Gurubel-González, Yessica Margely, Navone, Graciela T., Machain-Williams, Carlos, Hernández-Betancourt, Silvia F. & Robles, María Del Rosario, 2018, A checklist of the helminth parasites of sympatric rodents from two Mayan villages in Yucatán, México, pp. 495-512 in Zootaxa 4403 (3) on page 503, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1212929 ...