Checklist of the cestode parasites of wild birds of Argentina

Abstract

An annotated checklist of the cestode parasites of Argentinean wild birds is presented, as the result of a compilation of parasitological papers published between 1900 and April 2021. This review provides data on hosts, geographical distribution, sites of infection, location of material deposited in helminthological collections, references and taxonomic comments. A host/parasite list is also provided. During this period, 38 papers were published that gather information about 34 cestode nominal species and 11 taxa identified at generic level, belonging to three orders, ten families and 35 genera. The highest number of cestode taxa was recorded in the family Hymenolepididae, with 12 nominal species and two taxa identified at generic level, followed by Dilepididae, with eight nominal species and three taxa identified at generic level. Of the 1042 species of birds reported in Argentina, only 29 (2.8%) were reported as hosts of adult cestodes. The families of birds with the highest number of reported taxa were Laridae and Anatidae, with 20 and 14 taxa, respectively.

Helminth and ectoparasitic faunas of the Harris’s hawk, Parabuteo unicinctus (Accipitriformes: Accipitridae), in Chile: new data on host-parasite associations for Neotropical raptors

“…The low prevalence of tapeworms reported in the present study is supported by previous studies where these parasites were considered to be scarce (Illescas Gomez et al, 1993;Krone, 2000;Sanmartín et al, 2004;Papazahariadou et al, 2008;Komorová et al, 2017), although in some cases, the prevalence was high, as reported by Santoro et al (2010) in Spain. The finding of this genus represents the second record in a Neotropical bird of prey (see Justo et al, 2017;Drago et al, 2021;Oyarzún-Ruiz & González-Acuña, 2021), with the first record identified in F. sparverius from central Chile (González-Acuña et al, 2011). There is no specific identification for this tapeworm in South America, a situation that could be overcome by well-preserved material and the use of molecular tools.…”