Checklist of the Helminth Parasites of South American Bats Author Santos, Cláudia Portes Author Gibson, David I. text Zootaxa 2015 3937 3 471 499 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3937.3.3 829a8145-1a92-4eab-aeab-395483c830f8 1175-5326 240106 F7CAD672-4865-411B-A5C7-D46AB3A2299D Family Rhopaliidae Looss Species of this rare group occur mainly in marsupials from the Americas, but occasionally in other in omnivorous mammals (and birds). The life-cycle is not known, but bats likely acquire the parasite by the ingestion of metacercariae encysted on the surface of vegetation or on/in molluscs or other invertebrates. Rhopalias Stiles & Hassall Species: R. coronatus ( Rudolphi, 1819 )