During January 2002, 3 specimens of an undescribed species of Oochoristica Lühe, 1898, were collected in Ctenosaura pectinata (Wiegmann, 1834) from Santa María Mixtequilla, Oaxaca, Mexico. Oochoristica leonregagnonae n. sp. differs from 71 of 82 species of the genus by its large number of testes (78–112 [95] vs. less than 65 per proglottid, respectively). In addition, the numerous ovarian lobes (31–79 [51]) possessed by the new species distinguish it from the other 10, with a maximum of 20 ovarian lobes. The new species differs from Oochoristica acapulcoensis Brooks, Pérez-Ponce de León and García-Prieto, 1999, which also infects C. pectinata in Mexico, by the presence of numerous staining granules throughout the parenchyma of the scolex in the latter species; likewise, testes in O. acapulcoensis reach and even overpass the excretory canals, whereas in the new species they are limited to the central region between these tubules.
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February 01 2005
A NEW SPECIES OF OOCHORISTICA (EUCESTODA: CYCLOPHYLLIDEA) PARASITE OF CTENOSAURA PECTINATA (REPTILIA: IGUANIDAE) FROM OAXACA, MEXICO
M. A. Arizmendi-Espinosa;
M. A. Arizmendi-Espinosa
Laboratorio de Helmintología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ap. Postal 70-153, C.P. 04510, México, D.F., Mexico. [email protected]
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L. García-Prieto;
L. García-Prieto
Laboratorio de Helmintología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ap. Postal 70-153, C.P. 04510, México, D.F., Mexico. [email protected]
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S. Guillén-Hernández
S. Guillén-Hernández
Laboratorio de Helmintología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ap. Postal 70-153, C.P. 04510, México, D.F., Mexico. [email protected]
† Escuela de Biología, Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootécnia, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Carretera Mérida-X'mancuil, Km 15.5, A. P. 4-116, Itzimná, Mérida, Yucatán, México
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J Parasitol (2005) 91 (1): 99–101.
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M. A. Arizmendi-Espinosa, L. García-Prieto, S. Guillén-Hernández; A NEW SPECIES OF OOCHORISTICA (EUCESTODA: CYCLOPHYLLIDEA) PARASITE OF CTENOSAURA PECTINATA (REPTILIA: IGUANIDAE) FROM OAXACA, MEXICO. J Parasitol 1 February 2005; 91 (1): 99–101. doi: https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-337R
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