ABSTRACT
In this paper we report endoparasites from a sample of 50 stenodermatine bats collected mainly over lick sites at the Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor, westernmost extremity of Amazonian Brazil. Four helminth species were recovered (Hasstilesia tricolor, Vampirolepis elongatus, Cheiropteronema globocephala. and Capillaria sp.), most of them from small intestines. Overall helminth prevalence achieved 26% (13/50) and the more prevalent species was H. tricolor (20%). Previously unknown in bats and reported for the first time in Brazil, this digenetic trematode was found in seven of the 18 bat species studied here. We argue that the drinking behaviour of stenodermatines at lick sites may be implicated in the dissemination of helminth infection among these bats.
Subject(s)
Animals , Male , Female , Gastrointestinal Diseases/veterinary , Helminthiasis, Animal/parasitology , Chiroptera/parasitology , Brazil/epidemiology , Cestoda/isolation & purification , Seasons , Gastrointestinal Diseases/epidemiology , Gastrointestinal Diseases/parasitology , Helminthiasis, Animal/epidemiology , Nematoda/isolation & purification , Prevalence , Trematoda/isolation & purificationABSTRACT
Oncophora melanocephala, a camallanid nematode from the small intestine of Priacanthus arenatus Cuvier, 1829 is redescribed from the Coast of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil and this occurrence represents a new host record for the species