Update of Dicrocoeliidae (Digenea) parasitizing rodents from the Americas with a description of a new Platynosomoides species from Argentina
| Autor: | NATALIA B. GUERREIRO MARTINS, GUILLERMO PANISSE, MARÍA DEL ROSARIO ROBLES, JULIA I. DIAZ, GRACIELA T. NAVONE |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, Vol 94, Iss suppl 3 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1678-2690 0001-3765 |
| DOI: | 10.1590/0001-3765202220211430 |
| Popis: | Abstract Digeneans are common parasites of small mammals. Dicrocoeliidae is a family with a cosmopolitan distribution, with 18 genera previously recorded from mammals in the Americas, six of them parasitizing rodents in Argentina. In this study, an updated compilation is provided of Dicrocoeliidae from rodents in the Americas. Also, a new Platynosomoides species is described parasitizing the cricetid rodent Akodon montensis of the Atlantic Forest in Argentina. Digital repositories were used to search for Dicrocoeliidae from rodents in the Americas. Rodents were collected in four localities of the Atlantic Forest, Argentina. Digeneans were removed from the rodent’s bile duct, and conventional studies were used for the morphological description. A total of 15 Dicrocoeliidae species were found parasitizing 18 rodent species from eight countries in the Americas. The new species of Platynosomoides from Akodon montensis differs from the other two species of genus by the size of body, testes, ovary, cecum length and position and length of the vitelline bands. Dicrocoeliidae show growing diversity, and the compilation of species in a rodent host base allows a clearer comparison and identification of new taxa in the future. |
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