Seventeen-hundred terrestrial gastropods collected in central Maine were examined for Parelaphostrongylus tenuis and other nematodes. Prevalence of nematodes was 4 to 7% in most gastropod species, but was 19% in Pallifera spp. Cosmocercoides dukae and Rhabditis spp. were the most common nematodes recovered. Only four P. tenuis larvae (prevalence 0.1%) were found. Foci important for transmission of P. tenuis in Maine have not yet been found.
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1 January 1977
NEMATODES IN TERRESTRIAL GASTROPODS FROM CENTRAL MAINE
J. GEORGE GLEICH,
FREDERICK F. GILBERT,
NORMAN P. KUTSCHA