Revisão da familia Eucotylidae Skrjabin, 1924 (Trematoda)

Systematic and pathologic study of Paratanaisia bragai (Santos, 1934) Freitas, 1959 (Digenea, Eucotylidae) infestation in ruddy ground dove Columbina talpacoti (Temminck, 1811)

“…Described as Tamerlania bragai by Santos (1934), included in the genus Tanaisia Skrjabin, 1924 by Freitas (1951) and further reconsidered as Paratanaisia bragai, its actual and accepted nomination, by Freitas (1959) that also erected the genus Paratanaisia, with P. bragai as the type, the species is frequently referred in avian pathology surveys; the morphology and life cycle of this digenean have been exhaustively described to add new data on morphometrics and mainly on intermediate hosts, that are terrestrial snails of the species Subulina octona Bruguière, 1789 and Leptinaria unilamellata Orbigny, 1835 (Stunkard, 1945;Silva and Mattos-Júnior, 1990;Arnizaut et al, 1992;Keller and Araújo, 1992).…”

“…The only reference of another digenean, Tanaisia magnicolica, occurring in the kidneys of C. talpacoti is that of Queiróz (1966); this species was described by Freitas (1951) on the basis of trematodes recovered from the kidneys of the guira cuckoo Guira guira Gmelin, 1788 and the yellow-billed cardinal Paroaria capitata Lafresnaye & d'Orbigny, 1837 in Brazil.…”

“…The helminths recovered from this host refer to the nematodes Ascaridia magalhaesi Travassos, 1913, Ornithostrongylus magalhaesi Travassos, 1941 from the intestine (Vicente et al, 1995) and the digeneans Brachylaemus (Mazzantia) mazzantii (Travassos, 1927) Travassos & Kohn, 1964, from the intestine and Tanaisia magnicolica Freitas, 1951 from the kidney (Queiróz, 1966;Travassos et al, 1969). This paper reports the first occurrence and pathology of the digenean Paratanaisia bragai (Santos, 1934) Freitas, 1959, in the kidneys of Columbina talpacoti.…”

First report of a natural helminth infection in the Japanese quail Coturnix japonica Temminck & Schlegel (Aves, Phasianidae, Galliformes) in the neotropical region

“…The prevalence of parasitism was of 10% and two specimens (one damaged) of the digenean, trematode Tanaisia inopina Freitas, 1951 (Fig. 1), on which a brief description is based, were recovered from one of the kidneys of the infected bird.…”

“…Five micrometers thick sections were stained with hematoxylin and eosin (HE). The two recovered worms were compressed-fixed in cold A.F.A (ethanol 70º GL, 93%; formaldehyde, 5%; glacial acetic acid, 2%), stained with alcoholic FREITAS (1951FREITAS ( , 1959 and that of the host follows SICK (2001). The development of this investigation has been authorized by the Committee of Ethics for the Use of Animals (CEUA/Fiocruz) no.…”