Some Helminths of the Woolly Opossum in Panama

First Report of Oligacanthorhynchus microcephalus (Rudolphi, 1819) (Acanthocephala: Oligacanthorhynchidae) in Didelphis albiventris (Lund, 1841) (Marsupialia: Didelphidae) in Southeastern Brazil

“…In summary and according to taxonomic keys and descriptions by different authors, [23][24][25][26] the morphological characteristics of the nematodes were consistent with Aspidodera raillieti (Travassos, 1913) (Nematoda: Aspidoderidae), a typical parasite of opossums in Brazil and other parts of the Americas. 6,7,18,20,24,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38] The of specimen acanthocephalus had a white, pleated, fusiform, spiral-shaped body with marked transverse wrinkles, and a proboscis broadly armed with six longitudinally arranged spiral rows, each with six shallowly rooted hooks, making a total of 36 hooks, and a well-developed muscular copulatory bursa, roughly orbicular, at the posterior end, all characteristics compatible with a male specimen of O. Microcephalus. 3,15…”

Synopsis of the Digenea of mammals of North America /

“…Site: bile ducts, gall bladder, pancreas Hosts: Canis latrans (3) Canis lupus (3,8) Martes pennanti (5) Ondatra zibethicus (2) Procyon lotor (6) Sigmodon hispidus 7Vulpes vulpes 4Dist. : Alta, Man, NB, NS, Ont, PA, Que, 1983 (Sask) Opisthorchis pricei Foster, 1939 Site: bile ducts Host: Caluromys derbianus pallidus FAMILY NOTOCOTYLIDAE Luhe, 1909 Catatropis fimbriata Barker, 1915 Dist. : WI Record: Rausch and Tiner 1949 Notocotylidae of Undetermined Species Monostomum affinis Leidy, 1858 Site: gall bladder and bile duct Host: Ondatra zibethicus Calicophoron microbothrioides (Price and McIntosh, 1944) Eduardo, 1983 A. a. americana (3,8) Odocoileus virginianus (6,8) Dist.…”

“…1976 (LA,TX) Dictyonograptus chamelensis Lamothe-Argumedo, Eurytrema allentoshi (Foster, 1939) Syn. : Platynosomum allentoshi Foster, 1939 Site: bile ducts, gall bladder Stunkard, 1947 Site: pancreatic ducts, small intestine Hosts: Canis latrans x Canis rufus (12) Procyon lotor (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,1 1,12,13) P. 1. lotor { 1)…”

A New Species of Mathevotaenia (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae) and Other Tapeworms From Marsupials in Argentina

“…Mathevotaenia (syn. Oochoristica) bivittata has been reported from numerous genera of didelphid marsupials in Brazil (Janicki, 1904;Janicki, 1906;Baer, 1927b;Pereira and Machado Filho, 1968;Santos, 1968;Pinto and Gomes, 1976;Gomes, 1979), Costa Rica (Flores-Barroeta et al, 1961), Panama (Foster, 1939), the West Indies (Sandars, 1957), and Bolivia (M. Campbell and S. Gardner, pers. obs.)…”