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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10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.4
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Trichuris muris
(Schrank)
(=
Trichocephalus muris
Schrank
; =
Mastigodes muris
(Schrank) Zeder
,; =
Trichocephalus nodosus
Rudolphi
)
Site of infection:
Caecum
Host:
Mus musculus
Locality:
Paraíso
Prevalence and mean intensity (range):
15.1% (24/159) and 3 (1–9)
Specimens deposited:
MLP-He 7427 and CNHE 10703
Comments:
The characteristics observed in the specimens of the present material agreed with those described by Hall (1916) and Feliu
et al
. (2000), i.e. males with spicular tube; spicule 721–776 long; proximal cloacal tube (158–221) wider than the distal cloacal tube (75–104); cylindrical spicular sheath or with distal spherical bulge and spiny; females with non-protrusive vulva; and eggs 57–63 long by 30–32 wide.
In
México
,
T. muris
has been recorded from
M. musculus
in
Hidalgo
(Pulido-Flores
et al.
2005) and
Tabasco
(
Cigarroa-Toledo
et al.
2017
),
R. rattus
in
México
City
(García-Prieto
et al.
2012),
R. norvegicus
in
México
City
(Zerecero 1943) and
Tabasco
(
Cigarroa-Toledo
et al.
2017
), and
H. irroratus
in
Morelos
(
Eslava-Araujo 2005
).
In
Yucatán
, this species has been previously reported from
M. musculus
in three localities in Mérida and Opichén (Panti-May
et al.
2015, 2017).