Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2000 |
Authors: | M. H. Bartel, Gardner S. Lyell |
Journal: | Journal of Parasitology |
Volume: | 86 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pagination: | 153 - 156 |
Date Published: | 2000 |
Keywords: | Acanthocephala, animals, Arthropods/classification, Cestoda, Dermacentor, ectoparasite, fleas, Helminths, Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic/epidemiology/parasitology/veterinary, Mallophaga, Minnesota/epidemiology, Nematoda/isolation & purification, Prevalence, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Rodent Diseases/epidemiology/parasitology, rodentia |
Abstract: | As part of a continuing and more general study of the diversity of parasites from subterranean mammals in central North America, individuals of the Plains Pocket Gopher, Geomys bursarius bursarius, were collected from 7 localities in northwestern Minnesota from September 1991 through October 1996. Arthropods collected included the fleas, Opisocrostis bruneri (4 of 124, 3.2%), Foxella ignota ignota (85 of 124, 68.5%); the chewing louse, Geomydoecus geomydis geomydis from 98 of 124 (79%), and larvae of the tick, Dermacentor variabilis (1 of 124, 0.8%). Nematodes found included Physaloptera limbata (2 of 118 gophers, 1.7%), Capillaria americana (4 of 118, 3.4%), and Ransomus rodentorum (31 of 118, 26.3%). Cestodes recovered included Anoplocephaloides infrequens (12 of 136 gophers, 8.8%), Anoplocephaloides variabilis (19 of 136, 14%), Andrya macrocephala (20 of 136, 14.7%), and Hymenolepis weldensis from 12 of 136, 8.8%. The acanthocephalan, Moniliformis clarki was found in 1 of 118 gophers (0.8%). No parasites were found in the cheek pouches, thoracic, or peritoneal cavities. |
URL: | http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=parasitologyfacpubs |
Arthropod and helminth parasites from the Plains Pocket Gopher, Geomys bursarius bursarius from the hosts' northern boundary range in Minnesota
Taxonomic name:
Geomydoecus (Lice), Rodentia (Mammal (Price et al)), Geomys (Mammal (Price et al)), Geomys bursarius bursarius (Mammal (Price et al)), Mammals (Mammal (Wilson & Reeder)), Rodentia (Mammal (Wilson & Reeder)), Geomys (Mammal (Wilson & Reeder)), Geomys bursarius (Mammal (Wilson & Reeder)), Geomys bursarius bursarius (Mammal (Wilson & Reeder))
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