New records of helminths of Sceloporuspyrocephalus Cope (Squamata, Phrynosomatidae) from Guerrero and Michoacan, Mexico, with the description of a new species of Thubunaea Seurat, 1914 (Nematoda, Physalopteridae)
Author
Oca, Edgar Uriel Garduno-Montes de
Author
Lopez-Caballero, Jorge D.
Author
Mata-Lopez, Rosario
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ZooKeys
2017
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43
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.716.13724
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.716.13724
1313-2970-716-43
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Mesocestoides sp.
Specimens deposited.
CNHE 9464, 9465.
Other hosts.
Sceloporus jarrovi
Cope in Chihuahua, Morelos and San Luis
Potosi
(
Goldberg et al. 1996
);
S. grammicus
Wiegmann in Mexico City (
Goldberg et al. 2003
);
S. torquatus
Wiegmann in
Queretaro
(
Goldberg et al. 2003
).
Remarks.
Four species of
Mesocestoides
are distributed in Mexico in carnivorous mammals:
M. bassarisci
MacCallum, 1921 in
Bassariscus astutus
Lichtenstein (
Procyonidae
) and
M. lineatus
(Goeze, 1782) in
Mephitis macroura
Lichtenstein (
Mephitidae
), both from Guerrero;
M. variabilis
Mueller, 1928 and
M. vogae
Etges, 1991 in
Canis lupus familiaris
Linnaeus (
Canidae
) from Mexico City (
Paredes-Leon
et al. 2008
). Unfortunately, the specimens found in
S. pyrocephalus
could not be identified to species level because they were at the tetratiridium larval stage. Molecular analyses are needed to determinate the species identity of the larvae found in reptilian hosts, which serve as intermediate hosts (
Santoro et al. 2012
).