Helminth parasites in six species of shorebirds (Charadrii) from the Coast of Belize

Abstract

Thirteen species of helminth parasites were recovered from six species of charadriid shorebirds (Aves: Charadriiformes) from Belize: the ruddy turnstone, Arenaria interpres, the snowy plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, the semipalmated plover, C. semipalmatus, the killdeer, C. vociferus, the white-rumped sandpiper, Calidris fuscicollis, and the black-bellied plover, Pluvialis squatarola. Cestode species were predominant (N = 8), followed by trematode species (N = 3) and acanthocephala (N = 2)

Tetrameres (Tetrameres) nouveli bodrogensis n. ssp. (Spirurata) and other nematodes of three species of shorebirds (Charadriiformes) in the Slovak Republic

“…It has been shown that nematode fauna of three shorebirds species is poorer than plathelmintes fauna (Macko et al, 2004). Similar findings result also from the studies of Bondarenko and Kontrimavichus (1999), Canaris and Kinsella (2001) and Canaris et al (2003). 5.)…”

Arhythmorhynchus comptus (Acanthocephala: Polymorphidae) from shorebirds in Patagonia, Argentina, with some comments on a species of Profilicollis

“…In Alaska A. eroliae was reported from the Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres (Linnaeus, 1758) (Canaris and Kinsella 2007), and A. longicollis (Villot, (Canaris and Kinsella 2001). This last two acanthocephalan species can also be distinguished from A. comptus by the number and distribution of the proboscis hooks (see Table 1).…”

“…The parasitic fauna of migratory birds has been the subject of numerous studies in different parts of the world (e.g., Canaris and Kinsella 2000Canaris et al 2003;Didyk et al 2007). However, in South America very little is known about parasites of shorebirds and of seabirds in general.…”

Acanthocephalans of the nominotypical subgenus of Plagiorhynchus (Plagiorhynchidae) from charadriiform birds in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London, with a key to the species of the subgenus

“…29 and 54 μm, respectively. Th is species was described from Charadrius dubius curonicus Gmelin in Japan (Yamaguti 1939) and later recorded, mainly from charadriiform birds, in the Australian Region (Australian mainland and Tasmania) (Johnston and Edmonds 1947;Amin et al 1999;Smales 2002Smales , 2003, the Palaeotropical Region (Taiwan and the Pescadore Islands) (Schmidt and Kuntz 1966;Amin et al 1999), the Palaearctic Region (Japan, Russian Far East, Kazakhstan, the Ukraine and Bulgaria) (Lisitsina 1992;Amin et al 1999;Dimitrova et al 1999;Araki 2003), the Oceanic Region (Hawaii) (Amin et al 1999) and the Neotropical Region (Belize) (Canaris and Kinsella 2001).…”