Gastric nematodes of Nile crocodiles, Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti, 1768, in the Okavango River, Botswana | Zendy

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Gastric nematodes of Nile crocodiles, <i>Crocodylus niloticus</i> Laurenti, 1768, in the Okavango River, Botswana

Author(s) -

Kerstin Junker,

Kevin M. Wallace,

Alison J. Leslie,

J Boomker

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

onderstepoort journal of veterinary research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.563

H-Index - 35

eISSN - 2219-0635

pISSN - 0030-2465

DOI - 10.4102/ojvr.v73i2.155

Subject(s) - crocodylus , biology , zoology , nematode , ecology , fishery , veterinary medicine , crocodile , medicine

The ascaridoid nematodes Dujardinascaris madagascariensis Chabaud & Caballero, 1966, Dujardinascaris dujardini (Travassos, 1920), Gedoelstascaris vandenbrandeni (Baylis, 1929) Sprent, 1978 and Multicaecum agile (Wedl, 1861) Baylis, 1923 were recovered from the stomach contents of Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti, 1768 from the Okavango River, Botswana, together with Eustrongylides sp., a dioctophymatoid nematode usually parasitizing piscivorous birds. Dujardinascaris madagascariensis was present in most of the infected hosts, while the remaining species were mostly represented in single collections in one to three hosts. All four ascaridoid nematodes represent new geographic records.

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