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Hassalstrongylus lichtenfelsi

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Species of roundworm

Hassalstrongylus lichtenfelsi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Rhabditida
Family: Heligmonellidae
Genus: Hassalstrongylus
Species: H. lichtenfelsi
Binomial name
Hassalstrongylus lichtenfelsi
Durette-Desset, 1974

Hassalstrongylus lichtenfelsi is a nematode worm of the genus Hassalstrongylus that infects the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in Florida. The females cannot be distinguished from those of the other species in the marsh rice rat, H. forresteri and H. musculi.

See also

References

  1. Diaw, 1976, p. 1085
  2. Kinsella, 1988, table 1

Literature cited

  • Diaw, Oumar Talla, 1976. Contribution à l'étude de nematodes Trichostrongyloidea parasites de xenarthre, marsupiaux et rongeurs neotropicaux. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (Zoologie) 282:1065–1089. Open access icon
  • Durette-Desset, Marie-Claude, 1974. Nippostrongylinae (Nematoda: Heligmosomidae) néarctiques. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée 49(4):435–450.
  • Kinsella, J.M. 1988. Comparison of helminths of rice rats, Oryzomys palustris, from freshwater and saltwater marshes in Florida. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington 55(2):275–280.
Taxon identifiers
Hassalstrongylus lichtenfelsi
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