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Bursey, C. R., & Brooks, D. R. (2011). Nematode parasites of five species of turtles from the area de conservación guanacaste, costa rica, with description of a new species of falcaustra. Comparative Parasitology, 78(1), 107–119.
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| Resource type: Journal Article DOI: 10.1654/4431.1 BibTeX citation key: Bursey2011 View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Chelydra, Chelydra serpentina, Chelydridae, Geoemydidae, Habitat = habitat, Heosemys, Heosemys grandis, Kinosternidae, Kinosternon, Kinosternon leucostomum, Kinosternon scorpioides, Mittelamerika = Central America, Parasiten = parasites, Rhinoclemmys, Rhinoclemmys annulata, Rhinoclemmys pulcherrima, Schildkröten = turtles + tortoises, Veterinärmedizin = veterinary medicine Creators: Brooks, Bursey Collection: Comparative Parasitology |
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Twenty-three turtles representing 3 families (5 species)—Chelydridae: common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina; Emydidae: brown wood turtle, Rhinoclemmys annulata; painted wood turtle, Rhinoclemmys pulcherrima; Kinosternidae: white-lipped mud turtle, Kinosternon leucostomum; scorpion mud turtle, Kinosternon scorpioides—collected in the Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica, were subjected to postmortem examination. Gravid nematodes representing 10 species, 9 previously described—Atractis costaricaensis, Cosmocercoides variabilis, Dracunculus globocephalus, Falcaustra chelydrae, Falcaustra tikasinghi, Klossinemella caballeroi, Sauricola sauricola, Serpinema magathi, Spiroxys figueiredoi—were found. Eight new host records and 7 new locality records are reported. A new species of Falcaustra inhabiting Rhinoclemmys annulata is described; it is the only known member of the genus lacking a pseudosucker, but having a toothed chamber separating the vestibule and the pharynx. Only Falcaustra kinsellai, infecting Heosemys grandis from Malaysia, has a toothed chamber separating the vestibule from the pharynx, but F. kinsellai has a pseudosucker.
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