Helminth Parasites from the Kit Fox,Vulpes macrotis(Carnivora: Canidae), from New Mexico

Metazoan Endoparasites of the Gray Fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus from New Mexico

“…Forrester (1992) reported it from Florida. Ubelaker et al (2014) found it in 43.4% of kit foxes (V. macrotis) and Ubelaker et al (2014a) found it in 35.5% of swift foxes (V. velox) from New Mexico.…”

Toxocariasis in Carnivora from Argentinean Patagonia: Species molecular identification, hosts, and geographical distribution

“…Definitive hosts of T. cati are mainly felids and include: cat ( Felis catus ), wild cat ( Felis silvestris ), serval ( Felis serval ), lynx ( Lynx lynx ), Iberian lynx ( Lynx pardinus ), cheetah ( Actinomyx jubatus ), cougar ( Puma concolor ), lion ( Panthera leo ), American leopard ( Panthera onca ), tiger ( Panthera tigris ), jaguarundi ( Herpailurus yagouaroundi ), ocelot ( Leopardus pardalis ), spoted cat ( Leopardus tigrinus ), Geoffroy's cat ( Leopardus geoffroyi ), Chilean pampa cat ( Leopardus colocolo ), tiger cat ( Leopardus tigrinus ), kodkod ( Leopardus guigna ), and Pallas cat ( Otocolobus manul) , among others ( Rodríguez and Carbonell, 1998 ; Beldoménico et al, 2005 ; González-Acuña et al, 2010 ; Okulewicz et al, 2012 ; Gallas and Fraga da Silveira, 2013 ; Cruz Hurtado and Muñoz Huamaní, 2016 ; Heddergott et al, 2016 ). Nevertheless, there are a few reports of T. cati in mustelids ( Martens martes , European pine marten and Martens foina , beech marten) and canids ( Vulpes vulpes , red fox and Vulpes macrotis , kit fox) ( Rodríguez and Carbonell, 1998 ; Górski et al, 2006 ; Ubelaker et al, 2014 ).…”

“…In Americas, records of T. cati have been reported from wild carnivores include Chile ( González-Acuña et al, 2010 ), Bolivia ( Fiorello et al, 2006 ), Perú ( Aranda et al, 2013 ), Brazil ( Gallas and Fraga da Silveira, 2013 ), Belize ( Patton et al, 1986 ), México ( Solórzano-García et al, 2017 ), United States ( Ubelaker et al, 2014 ), and Canada ( Dare and Watkins, 2012 ). In Argentina, the findings of T. cati larvae and adults were recorded from digestive tracts of Leopardus geoffroyi D'Orbigny and Gervais 1844, Puma concolor Linneus 1771, and Leopardus guigna (Molina, 1782) ( Beldoménico et al, 2005 ; Moleón et al, 2015 ) from different localities of the country ( Table 1 ).…”

A walk on the wild side: A review of the epidemiology of Toxocara canis and Toxocara cati in wild hosts

“…This group of hosts are, therefore, the most frequently listed in Table S1 . These are Red fox ( Vulpes vulpes ), Arctic fox ( Vulpes lagopus ) ( Myšková et al, 2019 ), Swift fox ( Vulpes velox ) ( Criffield et al, 2009 ), Darwin's fox ( Lycalopex fulvipes ) ( Jiménez et al, 2012 ), Japanese red fox ( Vulpes vulpes japonica ) ( Sato et al, 1999 ), Kit fox ( Vulpes macrotis) ( Ubelaker et al, 2014 ) , Andean fox ( Lycalopex culpaeus) ( Vega et al, 2021 ) , Pampas fox ( Lycalopex gymnocercus) ( Moleon et al, 2015 ), Crab-eating fox ( Cerdocyonthous cerdocyon) ( Santos et al, 2012 ) and Gray fox ( Urocyon cinereoargenteus) ( Hernández-Camacho et al, 2011 ).…”