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Syphacia oryzomyos

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Genus
  
Syphacia

Phylum
  
Nematoda

Order
  
Oxyurida

Family
  
Oxyuridae

Scientific name
  
Syphacia oryzomyos

Rank
  
Species

Subclass
  
Spiruria

Similar
  
Oxyurida, Oxyuridae, Gongylonema, Trichuris muris, Heterakis

Syphacia oryzomyos is a nematode that infects the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in Florida. A similar species of Syphacia has been recorded from the rice rats Oligoryzomys fulvescens and Handleyomys melanotis in San Luis Potosí, but because only females were found, this worm could not be identified to species.

Literature cited

  • 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.
  • Underwood, H.T., Owen, J.G. and Engstrom, M.D. 1986. Endohelminths of three species of Oryzomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae) from San Luis Potosi, Mexico (subscription required). The Southwestern Naturalist 31(3):410–411.

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