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Hymenolepididae

Description

Family Hymenolepididae

Dildotaenia Dronen, Schmidt, Allison & Mellen, 1988

Dildotaenia latovarium Dronen, Schmidt, Allison & Mellen, 1988

Location: duodenum, jejunum, upper ileum.

Locality: Otago Peninsula (New Zealand).

Reference: Latham & Poulin (2002).

Aploparaxis Clerc, 1903

Aploparaxis larina Fuhrman, 1925

Other host: Larus hyperboreus Gunneros. Location: small intestine.

Locality: Antarctica.

Reference: Yamaguti (1959).

Aploparaxis primus Szidat, 1964 Location: small intestine.

Locality: Santa Fe Province (Argentina). Reference: Szidat (1964).

Nadejdolepis Spasskii & Spasskaya, 1954

Nadejdolepis alaskensis (Deblock & Rasuch, 1967)

Syn: Hymenolepis alaskensis Deblock & Rausch, 1967 Location: duodenum, jejunum, and upper ileum. Locality: Otago Peninsula (New Zealand).

Reference: Latham & Poulin (2002) (identification not certain).

Wardium Mayhew, 1925

Wardium arctowskii (Jarecka & Ostas, 1984) Syn.: Hymenolepis arctowskii Jarecka & Ostas, 1984 Location: jejunum, but also duodenum and ileum. Locality: King George Island (Antarctica). Life history: H1: Branchinecta gaini Daday. References: Jarecka (1984), Jarecka & Ostas (1984).

Wardium semiductilis Szidat, 1964 (Syn.: Hymenolepis semiductilis).

Other host: L. maculipennis.

Location: small intestine.

Localities: Río Paraná, Santa Fe (Argentina). Reference: Szidat (1964).

Microsomacanthus Lopez-Neyra, 1942

Microsomacanthus shetlandicus Cielecka & Zdzitowiecki, 1981 Location: jejunum, Ileum.

Locality: King George Island (Antarctica). Mar del Plata (Argentina). Other host: L. maculipennis.

Reference: Cielecka & Zdzitowiecki (1981). Labriola & Suriano (2001).

Notes

Published as part of González-Acuña, Daniel, Cerda, Fabiola, López, Juana, Ortega, René, Mathieu, Christian & Kinsella, Mike, 2009, Checklist of the helminths of the kelp gull, Larus dominicanus (Aves: Laridae), with new records from Chile, pp. 27-43 in Zootaxa 2297 on pages 34-35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.191612

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References

  • Latham, A. D. M. & Poulin, R. (2002) New records of gastrointestinal helminths from the southern black-backed gull (Larus dominicanus) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 29, 253 - 257.
  • Yamaguti, S. (1959). Systema Helminthum. Vol. II. The Cestodes of Vertebrates. Interscience Publishers, New York, USA, 860 pp.
  • Szidat L. (1964) Vergleichende Helminthologische Untersuchungen an den argentinischen Grossmoven Larus marinus dominicanus Lichtenstein und Larus ridibundus maculipennis Lichtenstein nebst neuen bebachhtungen uber die artbildung bei Pararasiten. Zeitschirift fur Parasitenkunde, 24, 351 - 414.
  • Jarecka, L. & Ostas, J. (1984) Hymenolepis arctowskii sp. n. (Cestoda, Hymenolepididae) from Larus dominicanus Licht. of the Antarctic. Acta Parasitologica Polonica, 29, 189 - 196.
  • Cielecka, D. & Zdzitowiecki, K. (1981) The tapeworm Microsomacanthus shetlandicus sp. n. (Hymenolepidae) from the Dominican gull of King George Island (South Shetlands, Antarctica). Bulletin de l´Academia Polonaise des Sciences, 29, 173 - 180.
  • Labriola, J. B. & Suriano, D. M. (2001) Community structure of parasitic helminths of birds of the genus Larus from Mar del Plata, Argentina. Vie et Milieu, 51, 67 - 76.