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1 December 2005 A NEW DICROCOELIID (DIGENEA: DICROCOELIINAE) PARASITE OF RODENTS FROM TLAXCALA, MEXICO
Rafael Lamothe-Argumedo, Jorge Falcón-Ordaz, Luis García-Prieto, Jesús Fernández-Fernández
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Abstract

Caballerolecythus ibunami n. gen., n. sp. is described from the intestine of 2 species of rodents (Liomys irroratus [Gray, 1868] and Peromyscus difficilis [Allen, 1891]) from Piñonal, El Carmen Tequexquitla, Tlaxcala state, Mexico. These specimens represent a new genus and a new species of Dicrocoeliinae by possession of an extremely short ceca (ending at equatorial level of ovary); vitelline follicles that begin posterior to these structures, without overlapping; and a body that is long and slender (length/width ratio 1:17–21). To the best of our knowledge, this combination of characters has not been reported in other genera of this subfamily (Athesmia Looss, 1899; Unilaterilecithum Oshmarin in Skrjabin and Evranova, 1952; and Pseudathesmia Travassos, 1942).

Rafael Lamothe-Argumedo, Jorge Falcón-Ordaz, Luis García-Prieto, and Jesús Fernández-Fernández "A NEW DICROCOELIID (DIGENEA: DICROCOELIINAE) PARASITE OF RODENTS FROM TLAXCALA, MEXICO," Journal of Parasitology 91(6), 1410-1412, (1 December 2005). https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-512R.1
Received: 5 November 2004; Accepted: 21 April 2005; Published: 1 December 2005
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