Digenean parasites of Ciconiiform birds from Argentina

Abstract

The helminthological survey of 13 specimens of 5 ciconiiform species revealed the presence of 10 species of intestinal digeneans:

Intestinal helminths of the white stork (Ciconia ciconia Linnaeus 1758) from an inter-route site in Turkey

“…Some of the helminth species found by some of these researchers correspond to our data (Arruda et al, 2001;Schuster et al, 2002;Greben et al, 2016). However, completely different species have been found in Ciconiform birds from Brazil and Argentina as compared to our study (Vicente et al, 1995;Drago and Lunaschi, 2011).…”

“…Additionally, the prevalence rate varied from 6.25% to 38.88% depending on the species of helminths. Different helminth distributions have been detected from Ciconiid birds in various parts of the world by different researchers (Vicente et al, 1995;Arruda et al, 2001;Schuster et al, 2002;Drago and Lunaschi, 2011;Greben et al, 2016). Some of the helminth species found by some of these researchers correspond to our data (Arruda et al, 2001;Schuster et al, 2002;Greben et al, 2016).…”

“…Tylodelphys excavata had been detected from Ciconia ciconia in the Ankara Province of Turkey earlier (Coil and Kuntz, 1958). All the species found in our study had been previously described as parasitising white storks in various countries by different researchers (Vicente et al, 1995;Schuster et al, 2002;Parsani et al, 2003;Drago and Lunaschi, 2011), except S. (M.) spinulosa which was first recorded in Ciconiiform birds in this study. Storks may have become infected with the parasites when grazing on the swamp or ploughed fields in Turkey or in any other country where they migrate.…”

“…Because of the high mobility of birds, it is often difficult to determine which parasites collected from them belong to the native fauna. Although there have been a few studies performed in other countries (Vicente et al, 1995;Parsani et al, 2003;Drago and Lunaschi, 2011), no systematic and detailed studies have been conducted on the white storks of Turkey to date.…”

New records and a checklist of trematodes from Butorides striata (Aves: Ardeidae)

“…The species was previously found in B. striata in the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil by Travassos (1945) and since then it has not been recorded in this host. Later, C. marginatum was reported in Tigrisoma lineatum (Boddaert, 1783) from Argentina (Lunaschi and Drago, 2009), and in at least 10 species of birds from Mexico (as C. complanatum) (Ramos-Ramos, 1995; Pérez-Ponce de León et al, 2007). Clinostomum marginatum had previously been considered a junior synonym of C. complanatum (Rudolphi, 1809), a species reported in birds from the Old World.…”