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Hassalstrongylus musculi

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Hassalstrongylus musculi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Rhabditida
Family: Heligmonellidae
Genus: Hassalstrongylus
Species:
H. musculi
Binomial name
Hassalstrongylus musculi
(Dikmans, 1935)

Hassalstrongylus musculi is a nematode worm of the genus Hassalstrongylus that infects the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) and house mouse (Mus musculus) in the United States[1] and Oryzomys couesi, Oligoryzomys fulvescens, and Handleyomys melanotis in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.[2] It was first described as Longistriata musculi by Dikmans in 1935, but transferred to Hassalstrongylus in 1971 and 1972 by Marie-Claude Durette-Desset. She later renamed the material she had used to describe H. musculi in 1972 as H. forresteri.[3] The females cannot be distinguished from those of the other species in the marsh rice rat, H. forresteri and H. lichtenfelsi.[4]

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References

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  1. ^ Diaw, 1976, p. 1085
  2. ^ Underwood et al., 1986, table 1
  3. ^ Durette-Desset, 1974; Diaw, 1976, p. 1085
  4. ^ Kinsella, 1988, table 1

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