Nippostrongylus brasiliensis Travassos
Description
Nippostrongylus brasiliensis (Travassos)
(= Heligmosomum braziliense Travassos; = Heligmosomum muris Yokogawa)
Site of infection: Small intestine
Host: Rattus rattus
Locality: Paraíso
Prevalence and mean intensity (range): 14.3% (1/7) and 37 (37)
Specimens deposited: MLP-He 7433 and CNHE 10712
Comments: The specimens collected in this study exhibited characteristics described by Yokogawa (1920) and Haley (1961), i.e. 14 cuticular ridges in the synlophe at midbody; asymmetrical bursa with right lobe longer than left, with pattern of type 1-4; in right lobe, ray 2 long and slender, rays 3 and 6 short and slender, rays 4 and 5 thick contiguous and diverging in distal portion; in left lobe, rays 2 to 5 long and slender, ray 6 thick and curved towards dorsal lobe; both rays 8 short and slender; short dorsal ray; rays 9 arising at same level of division of the dorsal ray; and spicules 565–618 long.
In México, N. brasiliensis has been recorded from M. musculus in Tabasco (Cigarroa-Toledo et al. 2017), R. rattus in Hidalgo (Pulido-Flores et al. 2005) and Tabasco (Cigarroa-Toledo et al. 2017), and R. norvegicus in Michoacán (Hierro-Huerta 1992) and Tabasco (Cigarroa-Toledo et al. 2017).
In Yucatán, this species has been previously reported from M. musculus and R. rattus in three localities in Mérida and Opichén (Panti-May et al. 2015, 2017).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Heligmonellidae
- Genus
- Nippostrongylus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rhabditida
- Phylum
- Nematoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Travassos
- Species
- brasiliensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nippostrongylus brasiliensis (Travassos, 1914) sec. Panti-May, Digiani, Palomo-Arjona, Gurubel-González, Navone, Machain-Williams, Hernández-Betancourt & Robles, 2018
References
- Cigarroa-Toledo, N., de los Santos-Martinez, Y., Zaragoza-Vera, C. V., Garcia-Rodriguez, M. M., Baak-Baak, C. M., Machainwilliams, C., Garcia-Rejon, J. E., Panti-May, J. A. & Torres-Chable, O. M. (2017) Occurrence of gastrointestinal helminths in commensal rodents from Tabasco, Mexico. Helminthologia, 54, 170 - 173. https: // doi. org / 10.1515 / helm- 2017 - 0014