Hassalstrongylus
Encyclopedia
Hassalstrongylus is a genus
of nematode
worms that infect mostly muroid
rodents from eastern North America to South America. The genus is part of the Nippostrongylinae and related to genera like Stilestrongylus.
The proposed species Hassalstrongylus multiovatus, described from Akodon simulator, is a synonym
of Trichofreitasia lenti from Oligoryzomys flavescens.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of nematode
Nematode
The nematodes or roundworms are the most diverse phylum of pseudocoelomates, and one of the most diverse of all animals. Nematode species are very difficult to distinguish; over 28,000 have been described, of which over 16,000 are parasitic. It has been estimated that the total number of nematode...
worms that infect mostly muroid
Muroidea
Muroidea is a large superfamily of rodents. It includes hamsters, gerbils, true mice and rats, and many other relatives. They occupy a vast variety of habitats on every continent except Antarctica. Some authorities have placed all members of this group into a single family, Muridae, due to...
rodents from eastern North America to South America. The genus is part of the Nippostrongylinae and related to genera like Stilestrongylus.
- Hassalstrongylus aduncus (Sigmodon hispidus, Rattus sp.)
- Hassalstrongylus argentinus
- Hassalstrongylus beta
- Hassalstrongylus bocqueti (Oryzomys couesi, Handleyomys melanotis, Oligoryzomys fulvescens)
- Hassalstrongylus chabaudi (Wiedomys pyrrhorhinos)
- Hassalstrongylus dessetae (NeacomysNeacomysThe genus Neacomys, also known as bristly mice because of their spiny fur, includes several species of rodents in the tribe Oryzomyini of family Cricetidae. It is most closely related to Oligoryzomys, Oreoryzomys, and Microryzomys. Neacomys species are mainly found in Amazonia, but N. pictus occurs...
sp.) - Hassalstrongylus dollfusi (Mus musculus)
- Hassalstrongylus echalieri (OryzomyiniOryzomyiniOryzomyini is a tribe of rodents in the subfamily Sigmodontinae of family Cricetidae. It includes about 120 species in about thirty genera, distributed from the eastern United States to the southernmost parts of South America, including many offshore islands...
sp.) - Hassalstrongylus epsilon (Nectomys squamipes, Akodon cursor)
- Hassalstrongylus forresteriHassalstrongylus forresteriHassalstrongylus forresteri is a nematode worm of the genus Hassalstrongylus that infects the marsh rice rat in the United States. It was first described as Hassalstrongylus musculi by Marie-Claude Durette-Desset in 1972, but she later recognized it as a different species, H. forresteri...
- Hassalstrongylus hoineffae (Oligoryzomys nigripesOligoryzomys nigripesOligoryzomys nigripes, also known as the Black-footed Colilargo or the Black-footed Pygmy Rice Rat, is a rodent in the genus Oligoryzomys of family Cricetidae. It is found from Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil through the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado into Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina, where it...
, Calomys callosus, Wiedomys pyrrhorhinos) - Hassalstrongylus lichtenfelsiHassalstrongylus lichtenfelsiHassalstrongylus lichtenfelsi is a nematode worm of the genus Hassalstrongylus that infects the marsh rice rat in Florida. The females cannot be distinguished from those of the other species in the marsh rice rat, H. forresteri and H. musculi.-Literature cited:*Diaw, O.T. 1976....
- Hassalstrongylus mazzai
- Hassalstrongylus musculiHassalstrongylus musculiHassalstrongylus musculi is a nematode worm of the genus Hassalstrongylus that infects the marsh rice rat and house mouse in the United States and Oryzomys couesi, Oligoryzomys fulvescens, and Handleyomys melanotis in San Luis Potosí, Mexico...
(Oryzomys couesi, Handleyomys melanotis, Oligoryzomys fulvescens) - Hassalstrongylus proechimysi
- Hassalstrongylus puntanus (Graomys griseoflavus)
- Hassalstrongylus schadi
- Hassalstrongylus zeta (Galea spixii, Cerradomys subflavus, Nectomys squamipes, Oligoryzomys nigripesOligoryzomys nigripesOligoryzomys nigripes, also known as the Black-footed Colilargo or the Black-footed Pygmy Rice Rat, is a rodent in the genus Oligoryzomys of family Cricetidae. It is found from Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil through the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado into Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina, where it...
, Akodon cursor, Euryoryzomys russatus)
The proposed species Hassalstrongylus multiovatus, described from Akodon simulator, is a synonym
Synonym (taxonomy)
In scientific nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that is or was used for a taxon of organisms that also goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linnaeus was the first to give a scientific name to the Norway spruce, which he called Pinus abies...
of Trichofreitasia lenti from Oligoryzomys flavescens.
Literature cited
- Denke, M.D. 1977. Quatre nouveaux nematodes heligmosomes parasites du rongeurs du Mexique. Bulletin de la Muséum National de la Histoire Naturel de Paris (Zoologie) 327:777–787.
- Diaw, O.T. 1976. Contribution à l'étude de nématodes Trichostrongyloidea parasites de xenarthre, marsupiaux et rongeurs néotropicaux. Bulletin de la Muséum National de la Histoire Naturel de Paris (Zoologie) 282:1065–1089.
- Digiani, M.C. and Durette-Desset, M.-C. 2003. Two new species of Nippostrongylinae (Nematoda: Trichostrongylina: Heligmonellidae) from the grey leaf-eared mouse Graomys griseoflavus (Sigmodontinae) in Argentina. Parasite 10(1):21–29.
- Digiani, M.C., Navone, G.T. and Durette-Desset, M.-C. 2007. The systematic position of some nippostrongyline nematodes (Trichostrongylina: Heligmosomoidea) parasitic in Argentinean sigmodontine rodents. Systematic Parasitology 67(2):87–92.
- Durette-Desset, M.C. 1971. Essai de classification des nématodes héligmosomes. Correlations avec la paléobiogéographie des hôtes. Mémoire de la Muséum National de la Histoire Naturel de Paris (A)69:1–126.
- Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1974. Nippostrongylinae (Nematoda: Heligmosomidae) nearctiques. Annales Parasit. hum. comp. 49(4):435–450.
- Durette-Desset, M.-C. and Digiani, M.C. 2005. Systematic position of some Nearctic Heligmosomoidea (Nematoda: Trichostrongylina) from the U.S. National Parasite Collection and their description (subscription required). Journal of Parasitology 91(4):893-899.
- Gomes, D.C., Cruz, R.P. da, Vicente, J.J. and Pinto, R.M. 2003. Nematode parasites of marsupials and small rodents from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 20(4):699–707.
- Magalhaes Pinto, R. 1978. Sobre Hassalstrongylus dessetae sp. n. (Nematoda, Trichostrongyloidea). Atas da Sociedade de Biologia do Rio de Janeiro 19(1):59–61 (in Portuguese).
- Magalhaes Pinto, R. and Correa Gomes, D. 1980. Contribuicao ao conhecimento da fauna helmintologica da Regiao Amazonica. Nematodeos. Atas da Sociedade de Biologia do Rio de Janeiro 21(1):65–74 (in Portuguese).
- Maldonado, J.A., Gentile, R., Fernandes-Moraes, C.C., D'Andrea, P.S., Lanfredi, R.M. and Rey, L. 2006. Helminth communities of Nectomys squamipes naturally infected by the exotic trematode Schistosoma mansoni in southeastern Brazil. Journal of Helminthology 80(4):369–375.
- Pérez-Ponce de Léon, G., Gardner, S.L. and Falcón-Ordáz, J. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships among species of Stilestrongylus Freitas, Lent and Almeida, 1937 (Trichostrongyloidea: Heligmonellidae: Nippostrongylinae), parasites of myomorph rodents (Rodentia: Muridae) in the Neotropics. Journal of Parasitology 86(6):1326–1335.
- Underwood, H.T., Owen, J.G. and Engstrom, M.D. 1986. Endohelminths of three species of Oryzomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae) from San Luis Potosi, Mexico (subscription required). The Southwestern Naturalist 31(3):410–411.