Hydatigera taeniaeformis Batsch

• 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: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Platyhelminthes; Cestoda; Cyclophyllidea; Taeniidae; Hydatigera; Hydatigera taeniaeformis; Rosario; Silvia; Caballero; Prieto; Gutiérrez; Mayan; Robles; Paraíso; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5949660; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5949660

Hydatigera taeniaeformis (Batsch) (Strobilocercus) (= Taenia taeniaeformis Batsch; = Taenia infantis Bacigalupo) Site of infection: Liver Hosts: Mus musculus, Rattus rattus, and Sigmodon toltecus Localities: Xkalakdzonot and Paraíso Prevalence and mean intensity (range): Mus musculus 1.4% (1/74) and 1 (1), R. rattus 28.8% (34/118) and 1.3 (1–4), S. toltecus 15.8% (3/19) and 19.7 (1–56) in Xkalakdzonot. Mus musculus 6.9% (11/159) and 1.2 (1–2) in Paraíso Specimens deposited: MLP-He 7425, 7361, 7362 and CNHE 10701, 10702, 10707 Comments: Each cyst contained one metacestode, which measured from 4 mm to 140 mm prior fixation. The specimens collected in this study showed characteristics which agreed with descriptions given by Jones & Pybus (2001) and Fitte et al. (2017b), i.e. scolex with four suckers 692–877 in diameter and rostellum with double alternative crowns of 17–19 hooks each, longer hooks 377–410 in length and smaller hooks 221–253 in length. In México, H. taeniaeformis has been reported from M. musculus in México City (García-Prieto et al. 2012), R. rattus in Hidalgo (Pulido-Flores et al. 2005), R. norvegicus in México City (Caballero y Caballero 1939) and Michoacán (Hierro-Huerta 1992), and Sigmodon hispidus Say & Ord in Nuevo León (Gutiérrez-González 1980). In Yucatán, this cestode has been previously recorded from M. musculus and R. rattus in three localities in Mérida (116–124 km to Xkalakdzonot and 56–59 km to Paraíso) and in Opichén (30 km to Paraíso) (Rodríguez- Vivas et al. 2011; Panti-May et al. 2015, 2017). This is the first record of H. taeniaeformis from S. toltecus in México. 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 499, ...