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Oligacanthorhynchidae

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Description

Oligacanthorhynchidae gen. sp.

Site of infection: Small intestine

Host: Rattus rattus

Locality: Xkalakdzonot

Prevalence and mean intensity (range): 0.8% (1/118) and 4 (4)

Specimens deposited: MLP-He 7426

Comments: The characteristics presented in the specimens collected in Yucatán belonged to Oligacanthorhynchidae (Yamaguti 1963; Amin 1987), i.e. specimens of 1300–1800 long, with a trunk relatively wide in proportion to length, wider anteriorly than posteriorly; tubular proboscis armed with approximately 72 hooks arranged in spiral rows; trunk without spines; long and tubular lemnisci with several nuclei; and proboscis receptacle with thick muscular wall. Collected specimens were immature.

In México, four families of acanthocephalans have been recorded from wild mammals (i.e. Moniliformidae Van Cleave, Oligacanthorhynchidae, Plagiorhynchidae Golvan, and Polymorphidae Meyer) (García-Prieto et al. 2012). In rodents, the family Moniliformidae is the only one recorded from R. rattus in México City (Coronel- Guevara 1953) and R. rattus and R. norvegicus in Michoacán (Hierro-Huerta 1992; Tay Zavala et al. 1999). This is the first record of Oligacanthorhynchidae gen. sp. from R. rattus in México.

Notes

Published as part of Panti-May, Jesús Alonso, Digiani, María Celina, Palomo-Arjona, Eduardo Emir, Gurubel-González, Yessica Margely, Navone, Graciela T., Machain-Williams, Carlos, Hernández-Betancourt, Silvia F. & Robles, María Del Rosario, 2018, A checklist of the helminth parasites of sympatric rodents from two Mayan villages in Yucatán, México, pp. 495-512 in Zootaxa 4403 (3) on page 500, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1212929

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CE87A4D30FFFC0EF909C96FC402709

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.4 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/1212929 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFF7FFDCD30AFFC5EF079D24FFAD2303 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/171E79AE-35AF-48B1-B1CA-7A2D2F3F488F (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03CE87A4D30FFFC0EF909C96FC402709 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/143472847 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/30326/taxon/03CE87A4D30FFFC0EF909C96FC402709.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Oligacanthorhynchidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Oligacanthorhynchida
Phylum
Acanthocephala
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Amin, O. M. (1987) Key to the families and subfamilies of Acanthocephala, with the erection of a new class (Polyacanthocephala) and a new order (Polyacanthorhynchida). Journal of Parasitology, 73, 1216 - 1219. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3282307
  • Coronel-Guevara, M. (1953) Observaciones sobre el ciclo biologico de Moniliformis moniliformis (Bremser, 1811). B. S. thesis, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico, 21 pp.