Acuaroid nematodes in the common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) in the south of Spain

Helminths ofMilvago chimango temucoensis(Aves: Falconiformes) from Los Ríos Region, Chile: New Records for Neotropical Raptors

“…The life cycle is indirect, with small terrestrial crustaceans as intermediate hosts (Carreno, 2008;Bartmann & Amato 2009). In raptors has been isolated from esophagus, proventriculus and gizzard of F. sparverius, F. tinnunculus and Accipiter trivirgatus formosae Mayr 1949 (Accipitriformes, Accipitridae) from Europe and Asia (Su & Fei 2004;Acosta et al, 2010). Despite that in the present study no gravid females were detected; this nematode has been isolated from raptors which include arthropods in their diet, which is similarly with M. c. temucoensis (Pavez, 2004), therefore it could be a suitable defi nitive host.…”

“…The specimens from the present study were bigger that females of Skrjabinoclava spp. found by Acosta et al (2010) in F. tinnunculus from Spain, but with a lesser distance of deirid from the anterior end, bigger glandular esophagus and smaller muscular esophagus. Skrjabinoclava Sobolev, 1943 has been reported in the proventriculus of aquatic birds.…”

“…Skrjabinoclava sp. Borgsteede et al 2003;Zhang & Beveridge, 2007;Acosta et al, 2010;Umur et al, 2010). Other species have been isolated in raptors; Synhimantus (Synhimantus) rectus (Molin 1860) Gendre 1920 and Synhimantus (Synhimantus) milvagoi Boero & Led 1971 in the proventriculus and gizzard of several Accipitriformes and Falconiformes from Brazil and Argentina (Boero & Led, 1971;Magalhães et al, 1994;Vicente et al, 1995;de Melo et al, 2013).…”

First record of Synhimantus (S.)laticeps (Rudolphi, 1819) Railliet, Henry et Sisoff, 1912 (Nematoda, Acuariidae) in Accipiter nisus (Aves, Accipitridae) in Turkey

“…This species was widely reported from all around the world, especially Turkistan, Russia, Bulgaria, Spain, Algeria, USA and India in some raptor birds (Accipiter, Aegiolus, Aquila, Asio, Bubo, Buteo, Circus, Cerchenis, Falco, Gyps, Otus, and Strix) (1,9). Despite its cosmopolite distribution, information about this nematode morphological feature is restricted.…”

“…(7,8), Synhimantus (S.) laticeps can be defined by recurrent and anastomosed cordons, long and narrow buccal capsule, posteriorly located tricuspid cervical papilla behind the cordons, and the unequal and dissimilar male spicules, distal end of left spicule has complexity (1,3,9) Some morphological features, measures and photographs of the nematodes were given within this report. To our knowledge, this is the first report of Synhimantus (S.) laticeps and also the genus from Turkey.…”