New Host Records for Mesocestoides (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidae) in California
- 1 January 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The American Midland Naturalist
- Vol. 49 (1) , 249-251
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2422291
Abstract
Mesocestoides larvae are reported from the lizards Gerrhonotus coeruleus ,Sceloporus occidentalis and Eumeces fasciatus: and from the snakes Thamnophis elegans and Crotalus viridis. Adult Mesocestoides variabilis are recorded from the carnivores Vulpes macrotis, Canis latrans and Lynx rufus; also from the opossum Didelphis virginiana, Mesocestoides sp. was found in the small intestine of the fox Urocyon littoralis. All above records are from California. Descriptions of the tetrathyridia are included.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Fragmentary Studies on the Life History of the Cestode Mesocestoides latusJournal of Parasitology, 1949