| pelecitus helicinus railliet & henry, 1910 (filarioidea, dirofilariinae) and other nematode parasites of brazilian birds. | we report pelecitus helicinus railliet & henry, 1910 from 13 species of birds of 2 orders and 7 families, collected from the states of são paulo and mato grosso, brazil. all 13 constitute new host records for this nematode. in addition, we report the first record of aprocta golvani diaz-ungria, 1963 from brazil and monasa nigrifrons (bucconidae), as well as a number of other nematode records from neotropical birds. | 2002 | 12118298 |