Cestodes or tapeworms (Class Cestoda, phylum Platyhelminthes) are widespread parasites of birds, as they cause various damages, which may lead to the death their hosts, especially when infection is severe. The Black Francolin belongs Phasianidae family pheasants and, in order Galliformes, gallinaceous and it called Francolinus francolinus. Considering a local bird Asia, was referred black partr...

Eight species of gastrointestinal helminths were obtained from the red-billed gull (Larus novaehollandiae scopulinus Forster, 1844) from Otago Peninsula, of which six were new host records. One of these, Maritrema novaezelandensis (Trematoda), was a species new to science which is being described elsewhere; the other five were Curtuteria australis (Trematoda), Echinoparyphium recurvatum (Tremat...

Platyhelminth phylogeny is controversial. Phylogenetic analyses of the partial domain C1 and the full domains D1 and C2 (358 nucleotides) from the 28S ribosomal RNA gene for 21 species from the Monogenea, Digenea, Cestoda, and, as the outgroup, Tricladida reveal major departures from prevailing theory. The Digenea and not the Monogenea (Monopisthocotylea and Polyopisthocotylea) form the sister ...

although the persian sturgeon, acipenser persicus , is a commercially valuable sturgeon species of the caspian sea, but there are only few reports about its parasite fauna in the southern part of the caspian sea. in this study, a total of 209 individuals of persian sturgeon were collected from two regions in the southwestern of caspian sea (guilan province, iran) from march 2009 to may 2011. af...

The paper presents the results of works on preparation of a proper museum collection of parasitic helminths gathered by the Polish scientists and dispersed in various scientific institutions. The collection composed of 11 author's collections and a special collection of available typical series of species described by the Polish authors has been deposited in the Museum of Natural History of Wro...

Information on species of parasitic helminths native to Poland is provided by the Pasozytnicze helminty Polski. Gatunki. Zywiciele. Białe Plamy. Until the middle of 2007, there were 1205 species of recorded helminths including 126 species of Monogenea, 338 of Trematoda (Digenea), 279 of Cestoda, 427 of Nematoda and 35 of Acanthocephala. They represented 32.9% of the species recorded in Europe (...

The article presents the comparative analysis of helminth fauna sympatric bat species, Myotis mystacinus and M. brandtii (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), in Samarskaya Luka National Park (Russia). Twelve species parasites were recorded both 2005–2007, including nine Trematoda, one Cestoda, two Nematoda. All these 12 noted brandtii. included a slightly depleted parasite being represented by seven...

The parasite faunas of the black stilt (Himantopus novaezelandiae) and the pied stilt (H. h. leucocephalus ) in New Zealand were investigated. The alimentary tracts of eleven black stilts, and three entire pied stilts were examined for the presence of parasites, particularly helminths, and a number of carcasses were surveyed for the presence of ectoparasites. Faecal samples were taken from capt...

A captive juvenile Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) died from an unknown disseminated parasitic infection. Deep sequencing of DNA from infected tissues, followed by gene-specific PCR and sequencing, revealed a divergent species within the newly proposed genus Versteria (Cestoda: Taeniidae). Versteria may represent a previously unrecognized risk to primate health.