Open AccessAdeleidea pseudoparasites in Cerdocyon thous Linnaeus, 1766 in Southern
Author(s) -
Rosiléia Marinho de Quadros,
Anderson Barbosa de Moura,
Ruan Bruno Rodrigues,
Marzia Antonelli,
Wilian Rafael Veronezi
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
semina. ciências agrárias
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.268
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1679-0359
pISSN - 1676-546X
DOI - 10.5433/1679-0359.2017v38n2p1084
Subject(s) - coccidia , feces , zoology , biology , invertebrate , veterinary medicine , ecology , parasite hosting , medicine , computer science , world wide web
Carnivores may have very varied eating habits, including the consumption of insects free in the environment or within grains. The ingestion of these invertebrates is essential for the dispersion of some kinds of coccidia in nature, which occurs through stool. This study shows the presence of Adeleidae pseudoparasites in Cerdocyon thous faeces in Southern Brazil, as well as alerting veterinarians to the existence of spurious infections that may lead to misleading descriptions of new species in these hosts, or attribute wrongly the presence of these protozoa to illness symptoms.