Parasitic nematodes of three species of wild carnivore mammals from Atlantic forest in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Autores/as

  • Fabiano Matos Vieira Laboratório de Helmintos Parasitos de Vertebrados, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Av. Brasil 4365, Rio de Janeiro CEP 21040-900, Brazil
  • Luís Cláudio Muniz-Pereira Laboratório de Helmintos Parasitos de Vertebrados, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Av. Brasil 4365, Rio de Janeiro CEP 21040-900, Brazil
  • Sueli de Souza-Lima Laboratório de Ecologia e Taxonomia de Helmintos - Odile Bain, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil
  • Bárbara Marun Rocha Laboratório de Ecologia e Taxonomia de Helmintos - Odile Bain, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil
  • José Luis Luque Departamento de Parasitologia Animal, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Caixa Postal 74.508, CEP 23851-970, Seropédica, RJ, Brazil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmb.2017.10.033

Palabras clave:

Parasitic nematodes, Brazil, Wild mammals

Resumen

This study aimed to report the occurrence of species of nematodes in wild carnivore mammals from a locality of Atlantic forest in Brazil.
Specimens of wild carnivore mammals of 3 species were necropsied: Chrysocyon brachyurus (Illiger, 1815), Cerdocyon thous (Linnaeus, 1766),
and Puma (Herpailurus) yagouaroundi (É. Geoffroy, 1803). Seven species of nematodes were recorded: 5 in C. brachyurus [Uncinaria stenocephala
(Railliet, 1884), Dioctophyma renale (Goeze, 1782), Strongyloides sp., Trichuris vulpis (Froelich, 1789), and Oslerus (Oslerus) sp.]; 2 in C. thous
[Angiostrongylus raillieti (Travassos, 1927), and Strongyloides sp.], and only 1 species [Cylicospirura subaequalis (Molin, 1860)] in P. (H.)
yagouaroundi. Strongyloides sp., T. vulpis and Oslerus (Oslerus) sp. were recorded for the first time in C. brachyurus from Brazil, and the first one
of C. subaequalis in a host from Brazil in their type host since the original description date from 1860.

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2017-12-21

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TAXONOMÍA Y SISTEMÁTICA