@article {39716,
	title = {Parasitic helminths and arthropods of fulvous whistling-ducks (Dendrocygna bicolor) in southern Florida},
	journal = {Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington},
	volume = {61},
	year = {1994},
	month = {1994},
	pages = {84 - 88},
	abstract = {<p>Thirty fulvous whistling-ducks (Dendrocygna bicolor) collected during 1984-1985 from the Everglades Agricultural Area of southern Florida were examined for parasites. Twenty-eight species were identified and included 8 trematodes, 6 cestodes, 1 nematode, 4 chewing lice, and 9 mites. All parasites except the 4 species of lice and 1 of the mites are new host records for fulvous whistling-ducks. None of the ducks were infected with blood parasites. Every duck was infected with at least 2 species of helminths (mean 4.2; range 2-8 species). The most common helminths were the trematodes Echinostoma trivolvis and Typhlocoelum cucumevinum and 2 undescribed cestodes of the genus Diorchis, which occurred in prevalences of 67, 63, 50, and 50\%, respectively. Only 1 duck was free of parasitic arthropods; each of the other 29 ducks was infested with at least 3 species of arthropods (mean 5.3; range 3-9 species). The most common arthropods included an undescribed feather mite (Ingrassia sp.) and the chewing louse Holomenopon leucoxanthum, both of which occurred in 97\% of the ducks.</p>
},
	keywords = {bicolor, Cestoda, Chewing lice, Dendrocygna, Florida, fulvous, lice, mites, Nematodes, Prevalence, southern, Survey, Trematoda, whistling duck},
	url = {http://bionames.org/bionames-archive/issn/1049-233X/61/84.pdf},
	author = {Forrester,Donald J. and John M. Kinsella and James W. Mertins and Roger D. Price and Turnbull,R. E.}
}
