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Hassalstrongylus lichtenfelsi

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Chromadorea

Family
  
Heligmonellidae

Phylum
  
Nematoda

Order
  
Rhabditida

Genus
  
Hassalstrongylus

Hassalstrongylus lichtenfelsi is a nematode worm of the genus Hassalstrongylus that infects the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in Florida. The females cannot be distinguished from those of the other species in the marsh rice rat, H. forresteri and H. musculi.

Literature cited

  • Diaw, Oumar Talla, 1976. Contribution à l'étude de nematodes Trichostrongyloidea parasites de xenarthre, marsupiaux et rongeurs neotropicaux. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (Zoologie) 282:1065–1089.
  • Durette-Desset, Marie-Claude, 1974. Nippostrongylinae (Nematoda: Heligmosomidae) néarctiques. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée 49(4):435–450.
  • Kinsella, J.M. 1988. Comparison of helminths of rice rats, Oryzomys palustris, from freshwater and saltwater marshes in Florida. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington 55(2):275–280.

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