A second record of adult Ascarops strongylina (Rudolphi, 1819) (Nematoda: Spirocercidae) in a rodent host.
Mature adults of Ascarops strongylina (Nematoda: Spirocercidae) were collected from a Manchurian zokor, Myospalax psilurus (Rodentia: Cricetidae), in Mongolia. This is the second record of adult A. strongylina from wild rodents and the first for M. psilurus as a definitive host of this nematode. Remnants of ground crustaceans (Porcellio sp.) and a dung beetle (Onthophagus sp.) were also found in the stomach of the zokor.
Ganzorig
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Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
Batsaikhan
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Samiya
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R
Morishima
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Oku
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Y
Kamiya
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D000818:Animals; D003411:Arvicolinae / Q000469:parasitology*; D002681:China; D001517:Coleoptera / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D006790:Host-Parasite Interactions; D008297:Male; D012376:Rodent Diseases / Q000469:parasitology*; D017205:Spirurida Infections / Q000469:parasitology / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary*; D013151:Spiruroidea / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000302:isolation & purification*