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Onchocercidae Leiper 1911

Description

Family Onchocercidae (Leiper, 1911)

Dirofilaria incrassata (Molin, 1858)

Nasua nasua (Linnaeus), heart, under the skin, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, São Paulo (Vicente et al. 1997) (CHIOC 8507, 9545, 11611, 13441, 13442, 14489, 14483, 15104, 15271). Procyon cancrivorus (G. Cuvier), under the skin, Rio de Janeiro, NHR (CHIOC 19829). Nasua sp., heart, Mato Grosso, NHR (CHIOC 14483, 14489).

Dirofilaria repens Railliet & Henry, 1911

Cerdocyon thous (Linnaeus), under the skin, Mato Grosso do Sul, NHR (CHIOC 15096, 15097, 15276, 15277).

Nasua nasua (Linnaeus), under the skin, heart, Mato Grosso do Sul (Noronha et al. 2002) (CHIOC 13215, 13226, 13454, 13455, 14979, 15102, 15103, 15105, 15107).

Dirofilaria sp.

Cerdocyon thous (Linnaeus), kidney, Mato Grosso do Sul (Noronha et al. 2002) (CHIOC 15096, 15097, 15276, 15277).

Galictis cuja (Molina), heart, Rio de Janeiro, NHR (CHIOC 2043). Leopardus pardalis (Linnaeus), unspecified site of infection, Mato Grosso do Sul (Travassos 1945). Lontra longicaudis (Olfers), under the skin, Rio de Janeiro (Noronha et al. 2002) (CHIOC 20103, 20104).

Nasua nasua (Linnaeus), pulmonary artery, heart, Mato Grosso do Sul, NHR (CHIOC 14980, 15016). Procyon cancrivorus (G. Cuvier), under the skin, Rio de Janeiro, NHR (CHIOC 8356). Pteronura brasiliensis (Gmelin), under the skin, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, NHR (CHIOC 15415, 22160).

Dirofilaria spectans Freitas & Lent, 1949

Eira barbara (Linnaeus), heart, pulmonary artery, Mato Grosso do Sul (Noronha et al. 2002) (CHIOC 11612, 18202, 18203).

Lontra longicaudis (Olfers), heart, under the skin, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina (Soto 2000; Noronha et al. 2002) (CHIOC 20108).

Pteronura brasiliensis (Gmelin), heart, pulmonary artery, Mato Grosso do Sul (Freitas & Lent 1949; Orihel 1965; Vicente et al. 1997) (CHIOC 13236— paratype, 17704— holotype and allotype, 17705— paratype).

Dirofilaria striata (Molin, 1858)

Leopardus wiedii (Schinz), unspecified site of infection, unspecified locality (Lent & Freitas 1937; Vicente et al. 1997).

Puma concolor (Linnaeus), unspecified site of infection, unspecified locality (Lent & Freitas 1937; Vicente et al. 1997).

Other

Published as part of Vieira, Fabiano M., Luque, José L. & Muniz-Pereira, Luís C., 2008, Checklist of helminth parasites in wild carnivore mammals from Brazil, pp. 1-23 in Zootaxa 1721 on pages 7-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181136

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Onchocercidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Spirurida
Phylum
Nematoda
Scientific name authorship
Leiper
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Onchocercidae Leiper, 1911 sec. Vieira, Luque & Muniz-Pereira, 2008

References

  • Vicente, J. J., Rodrigues, H. O., Gomes, D. C. & Pinto, R. M. (1997) Nematoides do Brasil. Parte V: Nematoides de mamiferos. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 14, 1 - 452.
  • Noronha, D., Vicente, J. J. & Pinto, R. M. (2002) A survey of new records for nematodes from mammals deposited in the Helminthological collection of the Institute Oswaldo Cruz (CHIOC). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 19, 945 - 949.
  • Travassos, L. (1945) Relatorio da excursao do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz ao Rio Parana (Porto Cabral), em marco e abril de 1944. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 42, 151 - 165.
  • Freitas, J. F. T. & Lent, H. (1949) Nova " Dirofilaria " parasita do aparelho circulatorio de ariranha (Nematoda, Filarioidea). Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 9, 377 - 380.
  • Soto, J. M. R. (2000) First record of Dirofilaria spectans Freitas & Lent, 1949 (Nematoda, Filariidae) in Lutra longicaudis Olfers, 1818 (Mammalia, Mustelidae). Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinaria, 9, 157 - 158.
  • Orihel, T. C. (1965) Dirofilaria lutrae sp. n. (Nematoda: Filarioidea) from Otters in the Southeast United States. Journal of Parasitology, 51, 409 - 413.