| experimental infection of contracaecum multipapillatum (nematoda: anisakinae) from mexico in the domestic cat. | juveniles of contracaecum multipapillatum infected the mayan cichlid (cichlasoma urophthalmus) and adults infected the olivaceous cormorant (phalacrocorax olivaceus) and the great egret (casmerodius albus) in the coastal lagoon at celestun, state of yucatan, mexico. all are new host records, and, even though the geographic locality record of mexico for the species has not been published, unidentified but presumably conspecific specimens have been reported from there. when juveniles of c. multipa ... | 1994 | 8064526 |
| ascocotyle (a.) nunezae n. sp. (digenea: heterophyidae) from yucatan, mexico. | a new heterophyid species, ascocotyle (ascocotyle) nunezae n. sp., is described from adults found in the intestine of naturally infected heron, casmerodius albus (type host), from the coastal lagoon of celestún. yucatan, mexico, and a domestic chick (gallus gallus), experimentally infected with metacercariae from cichlasoma octofasciatum. the new species is characterized mainly by the number (32-37) and arrangement of circumoral spines, which form i complete row of 25-27 circumoral spines and 6- ... | 1997 | 9057711 |