Metazoan Endoparasites of the Gray Fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus from New Mexico

Authors

John E. Ubelaker, Southern Methodist UniversityFollow
Bretton S. Griffin, Southern Methodist University
Genevieve M. Konicke, Southern Methodist University
Nora Abdullah, Southern Methodist University
Aya Mouhaffel, Southern Methodist University
Donald Duszynski, University of New MexicoFollow
Robert L. Harrison, University of New MexicoFollow

Date of this Version

9-15-2015

Document Type

Article

Citation

MANTER: Journal of Parasite Biodiversity (ISSN 2470-8224).

Occasional Papers, Number 1, September 15, 2015.

doi: 10.13014/K2G44N6V.

Comments

Copyright © 2015, Ubelaker, Griffin, Konicke, Abdullah, Mouhaffel, Duszynski, and Harrison.

Open access license, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International.

The archive of record for nomenclatural acts in this journal is the Internet Archive.

Abstract

Metazoan gastrointestinal endoparasites were recovered from 10 of 14 (71.4%) gray foxes [Urocyon cinereoargenteus (Schreber, 1775)] collected in New Mexico from 1996 -1998. They include a pentastome Porocephalus sp., (n=1, 7.1%), a trematode: Fasciola hepatica Linnaeus, 1758 (n=1, 7.1%), the nematodes: Physaloptera rara Hall and Wigdor, 1918 (n=3, 14.3%), Physaloptera praeputialis Linstow, 1899 (n=2, 14.3%), an unidentified female Physaloptera sp. (n=1, 7.1%), Toxocara mystax (Zeder, 1800) (n=2, 14.3%), Toxocara canis (Werner, 1782) (n=1, 7.1%), Spirocerca lupi (Rudolphi, 1809) (n=6, 42.9%), and cestodes: Taenia pisiformis (Bloch, 1780) n=3, n=3, (21.4%), Taenia serialis (Gervais, 1847) (n=3, 21.4%), and Mesocestoides kirbyi Chandler, 1944 (n=7, 50%). All parasites found are new records for the gray fox in New Mexico. The parasites, Porocephalus sp, Fasciola hepatica, Toxocara mystax and Mesocestoides kirbyi are new records for the gray fox for North America.