A checklist of the helminth parasites of sympatric rodents from two Mayan villages in Yucatán, México
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Panti-May, Jesús Alonso
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Digiani, María Celina
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Palomo-Arjona, Eduardo Emir
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Gurubel-González, Yessica Margely
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Navone, Graciela T.
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Machain-Williams, Carlos
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Hernández-Betancourt, Silvia F.
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Robles, María Del Rosario
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-04-05
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10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.4
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Trichuris silviae
Panti-May & Robles
Site of infection:
Caecum
Host:
Heteromys gaumeri
Locality:
Xkalakdzonot
Prevalence and mean intensity (range):
75.0% (6/8) and 3 (2–59)
Specimens deposited:
MLP-He 7428 and CNHE 10704
Comments:
The specimens examined in this study had characteristics described by Panti-May & Robles (2016) of trichurids from
H. gaumeri
, i.e. males with spicular tube; spicule
1471–1732
long; proximal cloacal tube 187–236 long, united laterally to a distal cloacal tube 93–121 long; cylindrical and spiny spicular sheath; females with non-protrusive vulva and eggs 57–63 long by 30–32 wide. Notably, specimens from only one host had spicular sheaths with distal spherical bulge. However, the posterior length/spicular length ratio was similar.
Trichuris silviae
has only been reported from
H. gaumeri
in Tzucacab
, Yucatán (approximately
65 km
from this new locality record) (Panti-May & Robles 2016).