Possible Recent Range Expansion of Alcataenia longicervica (Eucestoda: Dilepididae) Parasitic in Murres uria spp. (Alcidae) into the North Atlantic [Short Communications]

• Main Authors: Muzaffar, Sabir B., Hoberg, Eric P., Jones, Ian L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Ornithology; Parasitology; Arctic; Pacific; Rowe; Elliot; Gaston; Spasskaya; Arctic Basin; Newfoundland; North Atlantic; Uria aalge; Uria lomvia; uria
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/parasitologyfacpubs/779; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/parasitologyfacpubs/article/1790/viewcontent/Alcataenia_longicervica_Range.pdf

A wide range of helminths has been recorded from murres Uria spp. (Threlfall 1971, reviewed by Hoberg 1984a, Muzaffar & Jones 2004). Of the cyclophyllidean cestodes that parasitize murres, the genus Alcataenia Spasskaya 1971 (Dilepididae) is represented by ten species, eight of which are restric...