Danise Benatti, Marcela Figueirêdo Duarte Moraes, Carmen Andrea Arias Pacheco, Dália Monique Ribeiro Machado, Wilson Junior Oliveira, Patricia Parreira Perin, Luís Felipe Andrietti, José Flávio Cândido Júnior, Alexandre Vogliotti, José Hairton Tebaldi, Estevam Guilherme Lux Hoppe
Knowledge of taxonomy and biodiversity of parasites is fundamental to better understand ecosystem dynamics. The objective of this study was to describe the helminth fauna of two species of marsupials in five fragments of the Atlantic rainforest in the western region of Paraná State, Brazil. In a total of 4050 trap-nights, the animals were captured using Sherman, Tomahawk, and Pitfall traps, euthanized, necropsied, and their organs inspected for helminths. After identification of the parasites, descriptors of infection, such as prevalence, mean abundance, mean intensity, and range of intensity, were calculated...
2023: Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Parasitology