Primer reporte de Cricocephalus albus (Digenea: Pronocephalidae) en el Perú, parásito de la tortuga verde del Pacífico Este (Chelonia mydas agassizii)

Gómez-Puerta, Luis A.; Bachmann, Vanessa; Quiñónes, Javier; Quispe, Sixto; Torres, David; Macalupú, Joe

doi:10.15381/rpb.v24i2.13501

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“…Despite this great diversity, information on its parasite diversity is very scarce considering its importance as biological indicators of disturbed habitat. To date the helminth parasites of reptiles, specially digeneans, have been poorly explored (McAllister et al 2010 (Pronocephalidae), all of which were recovered from aquatic or terrestrial turtles (Tantaleán et al 1992, Tantaleán and Forlong 2013, Fernandes and Kohn 2014, Werneck and Da Silva 2016, Gomez-Puerta et al 2017. Therefore, additional parasitological surveys are needed to comprehend the true digenean richness in reptiles of Peru; this study expands this knowledge adding a new species of Glossidiella infecting the lung of the brown ground snake.…”

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Glossidiella peruensis sp. nov., a new digenean (Plagiorchiida: Plagiorchiidae) from the lung of the brown ground snake Atractus major (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from Peru

Huancachoque¹,

Sáez²,

Cruces³

et al. 2020

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During a survey of helminth parasites of the brown ground snake, Atractus major Boulenger, 1894 (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from Moyobamba, region of San Martin (northeastern Peru), a new species of Glossidiella Travassos, 1927 (Plagiorchiida: Plagiorchiidae) was found and is described herein based on morphological and ultrastructural data. The digeneans found in the lung were measured and drawings were made with a drawing tube. The ultrastructure was studied using scanning electron microscope. Glossidiella peruensissp. nov. is easily distinguished from the type- and only species of the genus, Glossidiella ornata Travassos, 1927, by having an oblong cirrus sac (claviform in G. ornata), distinctly ovate testes (rounded testes in G. ornata) and button-like papillae on the dorsal edge of the oral sucker region (absent in G. ornata). In addition, G. peruensissp. nov. differs from G. ornata by possessing a longer distance between testes and substantially wider oral and ventral suckers. This is the first time that a species of digenean is described and reported parasitizing snakes in Peru.

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Glossidiella peruensis sp. nov., a new digenean (Plagiorchiida: Plagiorchiidae) from the lung of the brown ground snake Atractus major (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from Peru

Huancachoque¹,

Sáez²,

Cruces³

et al. 2020

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“…They also act as seed dispersers and their presence indicates good ecosystem health (Klemens & Thorbjarnarson, 1995;Benítez-Malvido et al, 2003;Castro & Galetti, 2004;Stevenson & Guzmán, 2008). One of their ecological roles involves serving as hosts to a range of parasitic helminths with both direct and indirect life cycles, contributing to their population dynamics and community structure (Fernandes & Kohn, 2014;Gómez-Puerta et al, 2017;Huancachoque et al, 2020).…”

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A checklist of helminths associated with reptiles (Tetrapoda: Reptilia) from Peru

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An annotated checklist of the helminth parasites associated with reptiles from Peru is provided, as the result of a compilation of parasitological papers published between 1963 and January 2022 and records of species deposited in national and international collections. The list provides data on hosts, developmental stage, sites of infection, geographical distribution in Peruvian territory, code of material deposited in helminthological collections, references and taxonomic notes. The database includes records of 106 different species of helminth parasites (82 nominal species and 24 taxa identified at the generic level), the majority in the adult stage. These helminth parasites come from 18 of the 25 official Peruvian regions. Nematodes have the highest richness in number of species (79 species), followed by trematodes (17 species) and cestodes (nine species). The acanthocephalans are represented by only one species. The parasites with the highest number of records were Physaloptera retusa Rudolphi, 1819 (11 hosts), Physalopteroides venancioi (Lent, Freitas & Proença, 1946) (nine hosts), Strongyluris oscari Travassos, 1923 (seven hosts), and Parapharyngodon scleratus Travassos, 1923 (five hosts), all of which are nematodes. The 106 taxa of helminth parasites have been reported infecting 55 species of reptiles in Peru, distributed in 34 genera and 14 families. The reptile species harbouring the highest number of helminth parasites are the yellow-footed tortoise Chelonoidis denticulatus (Linnaeus) with 18 species (three trematodes and 15 nematodes), followed by the Peru desert tegu Dicrodon guttulatum Duméril & Bibron (Teiidae) with 11 species (three cestodes and eight nematodes) and the yellow-spotted Amazon River turtle Podocnemis unifilis Troschel (Podocnemididae) with 10 species (five trematodes and five nematodes). Of the 524 species of reptiles reported in Peru, only 55 (>10%) are reported as hosts of helminths representing a small proportion considering the great variety of reptile hosts that inhabit the various tropical and subtropical geographical areas of Peru.

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Primer reporte de Cricocephalus albus (Digenea: Pronocephalidae) en el Perú, parásito de la tortuga verde del Pacífico Este (Chelonia mydas agassizii)

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Glossidiella peruensis sp. nov., a new digenean (Plagiorchiida: Plagiorchiidae) from the lung of the brown ground snake Atractus major (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from Peru

Glossidiella peruensis sp. nov., a new digenean (Plagiorchiida: Plagiorchiidae) from the lung of the brown ground snake Atractus major (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from Peru

A checklist of helminths associated with reptiles (Tetrapoda: Reptilia) from Peru

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