“…The two Tunga species discussed here affect many species of domestic animals, in addition to humans. Tunga penetrans has been reported in pigs, bovines, goats, sheep, horses, donkeys, mules, llamas, dogs and cats, as well as in some wild animals of Latin America, such as the agouti ( Dasyprocta punctata ), paca ( Agouti paca ), acouchi ( Myoprocta acouchy ) (Bonnet, 1867), armadillo ( Euphractes sexcinctus ) (da Fonseca, 1936), tapir ( Tapirus terrestris, Tapirus americanus ) (Del Ponte & Riesel, 1939; Linardi & Guimarães, 2000), unspecified chiropterans (Blanchard, 1890) and various rats and mice (Karsten, 1865; Rothschild, 1910; Martini, 1932; Heukelbach et al . 2004c).…”