The helminth fauna of Australasian marsupials is reviewed with reference to host biology
and evolutionary trends. Forty families of helminth parasites (9 of Trematoda, 5 of Cestoda …

“Parasites furnish information about present day habitats and ecology of their individual
hosts. These same parasites also hold promise of telling us something about host and …

DIAGNOSIS. Monodelphis domestica differs from M. maraxina by having more tail bristles
and a more-developed auditory bullae (Pine 1979); it is much larger than M. kunsi (total …

A total of 32 taxa of helminths were recovered from 52 individuals corresponding to 17
species of didelphiomorph marsupials collected across Bolivia. From these, 20 taxa are …

From the small intestines of both Ctenomys boliviensis and Ctenomys steinbachi collected
from August 1984 through June 1990 from the eastern lowlands of the Department of Santa …

Pritchardia boliviensis n. gen. n. sp.(Anoplocephalidae: Linstowiinae) is described from
marsupials (Marmosops noctivagus, Metachirus nudicaudatus, Gracilinanus sp.) collected in …

Rodents living in a subterranean ecotope face a unique combination of evolutionary and
ecological pressures and while host species evolution may be driven by the selective …

Materials and Methods A single cestode specimen was obtained from the small intestine of
one of 18 Chinese horseshoe bats, Rhinolophus sinicus, collected in China (Yunnan …

The parasites of dasyurid marsupials are far better known than those of other carnivorous
Australian or of South American marsupials. The known parasite fauna of dasyurids is …

Sydney Anderson and the" Mammalian Diversity in Bolivia"(MDB) project (1984-1993)
established a highly productive model for integrated specimen-based field expeditions. We …