Guerrerostrongylus
Guerrerostrongylus is a genus of nematode worms. Species of Guerrerostrongylus infect mostly the digestive tract of sigmodontine and caviomorph rodents from South America. The genus is part of the subfamily Nippostrongylinae.[1][2]
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| Guerrerostrongylus marginalis | |
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| Subfamily: | Nippostrongylinae |
| Genus: | Guerrerostrongylus Sutton & Durette-Desset, 1991 |
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| Guerrerostrongylus uruguayensis Sutton and Durette-Desset, 1991 | |
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Synlophe of Guerrerostrongylus marginalis (transverse sections)
Species include:
- Guerrerostrongylus uruguayensis Sutton and Durette-Desset, 1991 (type-species)
- Guerrerostrongylus zetta (Travassos, 1937)
- Guerrerostrongylus gomesae Simões, dos Santos and Maldonado, 2012
- Guerrerostrongylus ulysi Digiani, Notarnicola, and Navone, 2012
- Guerrerostrongylus marginalis Weirich, Catzeflis, and Jiménez, 2016 [2]
References
- Sutton, C A; Durette-Desset, M-C (1991). "Nippostrongylinae (Nematoda-Trichostrongyloidea) parasites d'Oryzomys flavescens en Argentine et en Uruguay". Revue suisse de zoologie. 98: 535–553. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.82072. ISSN 0035-418X.
- Weirich, Jessica M.; Catzeflis, François; Jiménez, F. Agustín (2016). "Guerrerostrongylus marginalis n. sp. (Trichostrongyloidea: Heligmonellidae) from the Guianan arboreal mouse (Oecomys auyantepui) from French Guiana". Parasite. 23: 9. doi:10.1051/parasite/2016009. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 4783586. PMID 26956220.
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