Syphacia muris Yamaguti

• 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: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Nematoda; Chromadorea; Rhabditida; Oxyuridae; Syphacia; Syphacia muris; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5949684; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CE87A4D300FFCFEF909C54FDFC20E8

Syphacia muris (Yamaguti) (= Enterobius muris Yamaguti) Site of infection: Caecum and large intestine Host: Rattus rattus Locality: Xkalakdzonot Prevalence and mean intensity (range): 65.3% (77/118) and 77.9 (1–816) Specimens deposited: MLP-He 7435 and CNHE 10706 Comments: The traits presented in our specimens were in accordance with those described by Hugot & Quentin (1985), Robles et al . (2008), and Khalil et al . (2014), i.e. quadrangular cephalic plate; amphids located close to the ventral submedian papillae; slight swellings of the cuticle instate of lateral alae; males with three mamelons, spicule 50–56 long, gubernaculum 25–30 long, accessory hook without ornamentation, three pairs of caudal papillae surrounding the cloacal region, and tail 174–250 long; and females with no prominent vulva, tail 334–650 long, and eggs 73–80 long by 27–37 wide. In México, S. muris has been reported from R. rattus in Hidalgo (Pulido-Flores et al. 2005) and Tabasco (Cigarroa-Toledo et al. 2017). In Yucatán, this species has been previously reported from R. rattus in three localities in Mérida and in Opichén (Panti-May et al. 2015, 2017). 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 505, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1212929