Lousy chicks: Chewing lice from the Imperial Shag, Leucocarbo atriceps
Forty-one imperial shag chicks were sampled for lice during the breeding season of 2014 in Punta León, Argentina. We found 2 lice species, Pectinopygus turbinatus infesting the body and Piagetiella caputincisum present in the oral cavity of the birds. This constitutes the first host record for P. tu...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:5554924 2023-05-15T16:53:41+02:00 Lousy chicks: Chewing lice from the Imperial Shag, Leucocarbo atriceps Leonardi, María Soledad Quintana, Flavio 2017-08-05 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5554924/ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2017.08.002 en eng Elsevier http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5554924/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2017.08.002 © 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Australian Society for Parasitology. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). CC-BY-NC-ND Article Text 2017 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2017.08.002 2017-08-27T00:07:18Z Forty-one imperial shag chicks were sampled for lice during the breeding season of 2014 in Punta León, Argentina. We found 2 lice species, Pectinopygus turbinatus infesting the body and Piagetiella caputincisum present in the oral cavity of the birds. This constitutes the first host record for P. turbinatus and the first record for the continental Argentina for P. caputincisum. Ninety-three percent of the chicks were infested by at least one lice species. P. turbinatus was present in all of the lousy chicks, while P. caputincisum infested 84.2% of them. The mean intensity was 29.5 and the range 1–129. There was no difference in prevalence, mean intensity or mean abundance between louse species. However, we found differences among the pattern of infestation of each species. Imperial shag chicks were infested by their parents during their first days of life by P. turbinatus, mainly in nymphal stage and by P. caputincisum as adult lice. Our results showed differences among lice species that could be related to the restrictions that lice from seabirds faced during their life cycle. Text Imperial Shag PubMed Central (PMC) Argentina International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 6 3 229 232 |
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Forty-one imperial shag chicks were sampled for lice during the breeding season of 2014 in Punta León, Argentina. We found 2 lice species, Pectinopygus turbinatus infesting the body and Piagetiella caputincisum present in the oral cavity of the birds. This constitutes the first host record for P. turbinatus and the first record for the continental Argentina for P. caputincisum. Ninety-three percent of the chicks were infested by at least one lice species. P. turbinatus was present in all of the lousy chicks, while P. caputincisum infested 84.2% of them. The mean intensity was 29.5 and the range 1–129. There was no difference in prevalence, mean intensity or mean abundance between louse species. However, we found differences among the pattern of infestation of each species. Imperial shag chicks were infested by their parents during their first days of life by P. turbinatus, mainly in nymphal stage and by P. caputincisum as adult lice. Our results showed differences among lice species that could be related to the restrictions that lice from seabirds faced during their life cycle. |
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