Observations on Cestodes in North American Owls with the Description of Choanotaenia speotytonis n. sp. (Cestoda: Dipylidiinae)

Authors

Robert L. Rausch, University of WashingtonFollow

Date of this Version

9-1948

Comments

Published in American Midland Naturalist (September 1948) 40(2): 462-471. Copyright 1948, University of Notre Dame. Used by permission.

Abstract

Little is known concerning the helminths parasitic in several major groups of the North American avifauna. This appears to be particularly true of the parasites of owls. Over the past few years the writer has had the opportunity of examining a fairly large series of these birds, and they have been found to be infected with several helminths of unusual interest (Chandler and Rausch, 1947).