A checklist of the helminth parasites of sympatric rodents from two Mayan villages in Yucatán, México
Author
Panti-May, Jesús Alonso
Author
Digiani, María Celina
Author
Palomo-Arjona, Eduardo Emir
Author
Gurubel-González, Yessica Margely
Author
Navone, Graciela T.
Author
Machain-Williams, Carlos
Author
Hernández-Betancourt, Silvia F.
Author
Robles, María Del Rosario
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-04-05
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.4
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Rodentolepis microstoma
(Dujardin)
(=
Taenia microstoma
Dujardin
; =
Hymenolepis microstoma
(Dujardin) Blanchard
)
Site of infection:
Bile ducts
Host:
Mus musculus
Locality:
Paraíso
Prevalence and mean intensity (range):
4.4% (7/159) and 5.1 (1–9)
Specimens deposited:
MLP-He 7424 and CNHE 10700
Comments:
The traits presented by our material were in accordance with descriptions given by
Casanova
et al
. (2001)
and
Cunningham & Olson (2010)
, i.e. scolex 258 long by 143 wide, with armed rostellum 67 long by 51 wide and four suckers of 72–78 long by 75–82 wide; rostellum with 26 cricetoid hooks 10.6–11.1 long; three testicles separated by a central lobed ovary; and eggs 63–74 long by 55–60 wide with polar filaments.
Rodentolepis nana
(von Siebold)
is the only one hymenolepidid cestode registered from
M. musculus
in
México
, with records in
México
City
(García-Prieto 1986) and
Hidalgo
(Pulido-Flores
et al.
2005). This is the first report of
R. microstoma
in
México
.