﻿Helminth and protozoan parasites of subterranean rodents (Chordata, Mammalia, Rodentia) of the world

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Published studies and ten new unpublished records included herein reveal that approximately 174 species of endoparasites (helminths and protozoans) are known from 65 of 163 species of rodents that occupy the subterranean ecotope globally. Of those, 94 endoparasite species were originally described from these rodents. A total of 282 host-parasite associations are summarized from four major zoogeographic regions including Ethiopian, Palearctic/Oriental, Nearctic, and Neotropical. Thirty-four parasite records from the literature have been identified to only the level of the genus. In this summary, ten new records have been added, and the most current taxonomic status of each parasite species is noted. Interestingly, there are no data on endoparasites from more than 68% of described subterranean rodents, which indicates that discovery and documentation are at an early stage and must continue.

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Altangerel T. Dursahinhan:

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0669-6868

Role: ConceptualizationRole: Writing - original draftRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: Project administrationRole: Visualization

Daniel A. Kenkel: Role: Resources

Scott L. Gardner:

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3133-740X

Role: Writing - review and editingRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: Resources

Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Zookeys

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Zookeys

Journal ID (publisher-id): 2

Journal ID (index): urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:45048D35-BB1D-5CE8-9668-537E44BD4C7E

Journal ID (aggregator): urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:91BD42D4-90F1-4B45-9350-EEF175B1727A

Title: ZooKeys

Publisher: Pensoft Publishers

ISSN (Print): 1313-2989

ISSN (Electronic): 1313-2970

Publication date Collection: 2023

Publication date (Electronic): 01 March 2023

Volume: 1151

Pages: 159-203

Affiliations

[1 ] Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, W-529 Nebraska Hall, University of Nebraska State Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA University of Nebraska State Museum Lincoln United States of America

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Corresponding author: Scott L. Gardner (slg@unl.edu)

Academic editor: D. Gibson

Author information

Altangerel T. Dursahinhan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0669-6868

Scott L. Gardner https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3133-740X

Article

Publisher ID: 97126

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1151.97126

PMC ID: 10207929

SO-VID: 410aafb7-b616-45e7-9028-a9e85295e83f

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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

History

Date received : 03 November 2022

Date accepted : 04 February 2023

Funding

U.S. National Science Foundation via grants DEB-0717214, DBI-0646356, DBI-DBI-9631295, and DBI-9411976.