New host and geographical records for helminths parasites of Ardeidae (Aves, Ciconiiformes) in Brazil

Arruda, Vanessa S. de; Pinto, Roberto M.; Muniz-Pereira, Luís C.

doi:10.1590/S0101-81752001000500018

Abstract

One thousand two-hundred-four helminth samples recovered from Brazilian Ardeidae birds during 54 years were studied. Samples consisted of cestodes, trematodes, and nematodes, parasites of egrets and herons. Based on the present results 49 new host and three new geographical distribution records were established.

Helminths; birds; Ciconiiformes; Ardeidae; new host and geographical distribution records; Brazil

New host and geographical records for helminths parasites of Ardeidae (Aves, Ciconiiformes) in Brazil

Vanessa S. de Arruda^I; Roberto M. Pinto^I,II; Luís C. Muniz-Pereira^I,III

^ILaboratório de Hemintos Parasitos de Vertebrados, Departamento de Helmintologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Avenida Brasil 4365, 21045-900 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

^IICNPq research fellow. E-mail: rmpinto@gene.dbbm.fiocruz.br

^IIICorresponding author. E-mail: lmuniz@ioc.fiocruz.br

ABSTRACT

One thousand two-hundred-four helminth samples recovered from Brazilian Ardeidae birds during 54 years were studied. Samples consisted of cestodes, trematodes, and nematodes, parasites of egrets and herons. Based on the present results 49 new host and three new geographical distribution records were established.

Key words: Helminths, birds, Ciconiiformes, Ardeidae, new host and geographical distribution records, Brazil

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. To Dr Dante M Teixeira, head of the Ornithological Section, Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and to Prof. Jorge Bruno Nacinovic, Ornithological Section Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), for reviewing the host nomenclature and discussing about host taxonomical status; to Prof. Joaquim Julio Vicente, FIOCRUZ Department of Helminthology, for helping in some nematode species determination; to Prof. Dely Noronha, FIOCRUZ Department of Helminthology (CHIOC), for providing the deposited helminth specimens.

Recebido em 19.IX.2000; aceito em 26.VI.2001.

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Date of issue
July 2001

History

Received
19 Sept 2000
Accepted
26 June 2001

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[1] Brooks, D.R. 1989. A summary of the data base pertaining to the phylogeny of the major groups of parasitic Platyhelminthes, with a revised classification. Can. Jour. Zool. 67:714-720.

[2] Khalil, L.F.; A. Jones & R.A. Bray. 1994. Key to the cestode parasites of vertebrates. CAB International, University Press, Cambridge, 751p.

[3] Muniz-Pereira, L.C. & S.B. Amato. 1995. Natural hosts of Notocotylus breviserialis (Digenea, Notocotylidae) parasite of Brazilian waterfowl. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 90:711-714.

[4] Muniz-Pereira, L.C. & S.B. Amato. 1998. Fimbriaria fasciolaris and Cloacotaenia megalops (Eucestoda, Hymenolepididae), cestodes from Brazilian waterfowl. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz. 93:767-772.

[5] Schmidt, G.D. 1986. Handbook of tapeworm identification. Boca Raton, Florida, C.R.C. Press. Inc., 675p.

[6] Sick, H. 1997. Ornitologia Brasileira. Rio de Janeiro, Nova Fronteira, 827p.

[7] Skrjabin, K.I. & A.A. Sobolev. 1963. Treatise of Nematodology. Spirurata from animals and men and diseases caused by them. Moscow, Akad. Nauk SSSR Ed., Vol. 11, Russian text, 511p.

[8] Travassos, L.; J.F.T. Freitas & A. Kohn. 1969. Trematódeos do Brasil. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 67:1-886.

[9] Vicente, J.J.; R.M. Pinto; D. Noronha & L. Gonçalves. 1995a. Nematode parasites of Brazilian Ciconiiformes birds: a general survey with new records for the species. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 90(3):389-393.

[10] Vicente, J.J.; H.O. Rodrigues; D.C. Gomes & R.M. Pinto. 1995b. Nematóides do Brasil. Parte IV: nematóides de aves. Revta bras. Zool. 12(Supl. 1):1-273.

[11] Yamaguti, S. 1961. Systema helminthum. The nematodes of vertebrates. New York, Interscience Publishers, 679p.

[12] ______. 1971. Synopsis of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates. Tokyo, Keigaku Publ., 1074p.