by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 20, 2014
Mastophoris muris (Gmelin, 1790) Chitwood, 1938 In 1924, Cram described a new species of worm, Protospiruragracilis, from the cat based on a single nematode that was recovered from the stomach of a cat that had been fed larval nematodes recovered from a dung beetle....
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 20, 2014
Spirocerca lupi (Rudolphi, 1809) Railliet and Henry, 1911 Spirocercalupi is basically a parasite of dogs and other canids, although lesions or signs of lesions have been reported in non-domestic felids (Kikuchi et al., 1976; Murray, 1968; Pence and Stone, 1978)....
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 20, 2014
Cylicospirura advena Clark, 1981 These nematodes were found in a single introduced feral cat in New Zealand. The feral cat was found to have in its stomach wall about six firm-tumor like balls, each about 1 cm in diameter. There was a fissure on the inner wall of each...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 20, 2014
Cylicospiruraheydoni (Baylis, 1927) Mawson, 1968 This species was originally described from a possum, Dasyurus sp., collected in Cairns, North Queensland, Australia (Baylis, 1927). In 1968, the worms were redescribed by Mawson using specimens from Dasyurusquoll...
by Jessica Retzlaff | Jun 20, 2014
Cylicospirura subaequalis (Molin, 1860) Vevers, 1922 ETYMOLOGY:Spiro = coiled and cerca = tail, along with subaequalis referring to the spicules of different lengths. SYNONYMS:Spiropterasubaequalis Molin, 1860. HISTORY: In 1860, Molin described Spiropterasubaequalis...
