Spiroxys contortus (Rudolphi, 1819) and Hedruris orestiae (Moniez, 1889) in Argentine turtles

Ezequiel Palumbo; Leandro Alcalde; Sofia Capasso; María Cassano; Julia Diaz

doi:10.15560/12.6.1993

Check List 12(6): e19595, doi: 10.15560/12.6.1993

Spiroxys contortus (Rudolphi, 1819) and Hedruris orestiae (Moniez, 1889) in Argentine turtles

Ezequiel Palumbo^‡, Sofia Capasso^§, María Julia Cassano^|, Leandro Alcalde^|, Julia Inés Diaz^§

‡ Centro de estudios parasitologicos y de vectores, Argentina§ Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (CEPAVE)(UNLP-CONICET), Argentina| Instituto de Limnología Dr. Ringuelet (ILPLA) (UNLP, CONICET), Argentina

Corresponding author: Ezequiel Palumbo ( epalumbo@cepave.edu.ar )

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Citation: Palumbo E, Alcalde L, Capasso S, Cassano M, Diaz J (2016) Spiroxys contortus (Rudolphi, 1819) and Hedruris orestiae (Moniez, 1889) in Argentine turtles. Check List 12(6): 1993. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.6.1993

Abstract

Knowledge of parasites in turtles is scarce, particularly with regard to freshwater turtles of South America. Here, we describe the association of Spiroxys contortus (Rudolphi, 1819)in Phrynops hilarii (Duméril & Bibron, 1835) and S. contortus and Hedruris orestiae (Moniez, 1889) in Hydromedusa tectifera (Cope, 1870). The presence of S. contortus in P. hilarii represents a new host record and also the southernmost geographic record for this species. More interestingly, the presence of H. orestiae in H. tectifera represents the first record of this helminth species from a reptilian host.

Keywords

helminths; Spiroxys; Hedruris; freshwater turtles; Neotropics