| tapeworm bolus expelled from new zealand variable oystercatchers (haematopus unicolor) during handling: first record of this phenomenon in wild birds, and a global checklist of haematopus cestode parasites. | on two occasions in november and december 2009, whilst being captured and handled for banding in tasman bay, new zealand, two variable oystercatchers (haematopus unicolor forster, 1844) voided a number of cestode strobilae from their cloaca. their morphology indicates that they belong to the family hymenolepididae, confirmed by blastn searches of large and small subunits of ribosomal dna partial sequences (18s and 28s, respectively). however, they cannot currently be assigned to any species repo ... | 2012 | 22752698 |