Evidence of Toxocara Eggs in Pachycrocuta brevirostris (Gervais, 1850) Coprolites from the Pleistocene of Taurida Cave (Crimea).

Autor: Sivkova TN; Perm State Agro-Technological University named after Academician D.N. Pryanishnikov, Perm, Russia., Khantemirov DR; Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia., Gimranov DO; Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia. djulfa250@rambler.ru., Lavrov AV; Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia., Kochnev AV; Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Doklady biological sciences : proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Biological sciences sections [Dokl Biol Sci] 2022 Jun; Vol. 504 (1), pp. 82-84. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jul 12.
DOI: 10.1134/S0012496622030036
Abstrakt: Coprolites of the hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris from the Lower Pleistocene (Upper Villafranchian) of Taurida Cave (Crimea) were studied. One of the three hyena coprolites contained helminth eggs. These eggs were assigned to Toxocara sp. based on their size and morphology. Toxocariasis was evidently a very common infestation among extinct hyena species. The find of toxocara in P. brevirostris coprolite from the Taurida Cave is the earliest evidence of roundworm infestation in P. brevirostris.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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