Title
Occurrence of Oncicola sp. (Acanthocephala) in Atelocynus microtis (Canidae) from the Manu Biosphere Reserve, Madre de Dios, Peru
Other title
Presencia de Oncicola sp. (Acanthocephala) en Atelocynus microtis (Canidae) de la Reserva de Biosfera de Manu, Madre de Dios, Perú
Date Issued
01 April 2011
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
review
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Asociacion de Biologos de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Abstract
During a large survey of mammals and their parasites, which took place in the Manu Biosphere Reserve, Madre de Dios, Peru, two specimens of Atelocynus microtis, short eared dog, were captured from which some acantho-cephalan specimens were collected. Albeit it was not possible to identify them up to species level basically due to their immature condition, all of them were diagnosed as members of the genus Oncicola Travassos, 1916.
Start page
135
End page
136
Volume
18
Issue
1
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología celular, Microbiología
Parasitología
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85044956817
Source
Revista Peruana de Biologia
ISSN of the container
15610837
Sponsor(s)
Los autores desean expresar su agradecimiento a Bruce D. Patterson de la División de Mamíferos del Museo de Campo de Chicago, quien condujo el proyecto científico en la Reserva de Biósfera del Manu y obtuvo los fondos necesarios por medio de un Grant del National Science Foundation (DEB-9870191) y nos dio la oportunidad de recoger y estudiar este material parasitológico.
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