First Report of Passerilepis parina (Cestoda: Hymenolepidi-dae) from Parus major in Iran: A Probable Fatal Case Due to Hyperinfection
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Sina Mohtasebi
,
Aref Teimouri
,
Mohammad Javad Abbaszadeh Afshar
,
Hamed Abbasian
,
Iraj Mobedi
,
Mahya Allahmoradi
,
Gholamreza Mowlavi
Abstract
Cestodes are important parasites that can affect the health of humans and wildlife. Among these, the genus Passerilepis is an important endoparasite of Passeriform birds while poorly studied in Iran. During a parasitological field survey in central parts of Iran in 2018, thirty-two cestodes, as an obstructive intertwined mass, recovered from the intestine of a recently dead Parus major (great tit). Morphological characteristics of recovered cestodes were drawn carefully by a camera lucida equipped microscope and identification was carried out using standard keys. All of the collected cestodes were identified as P. parina. In the current study, we recorded P. parina from great tit for the first time in Iran.
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3. Galkin A. Cestodes of Dyatlovyh (Picidae) in Kurshskaya Kosa. Parazitologiya. 1980;14(5).
4. Mansoori J. A guide to the birds of Iran. Farzaneh Publication. Tehran, Iran; 2008.
5. Estók P, Zsebők S, Siemers BM. Great tits search for, capture, kill and eat hibernating bats. Biol Lett. 2010;6(1):59-62.
6. Cramp S, Simmons K. Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa: Oxford University Press, Oxford; 1988.
7. Wilkin TA, King LE, Sheldon BC. Habitat quality, nestling diet, and provisioning behaviour in great tits Parus major. J Avian Biol. 2009;40(2):135-45.
8. Spasski A, Spasskaya L. Passerilepis and Variolepis (Cestoda: Hymenolepididae). Ceskoslovenska Parasitologie. 1964;11:247-55.
9. Gosler A, Clement P. Family Paridae (tits and chickadees). Handbook of the Birds of the World. 2007;12:662-750.
10. Georgiev B. In toto staining method for cestodes with iron acetocarmine. Helminthologia. 1986;23:279-281.
11. Khalil LF, Jones A, Bray RA. Keys to the cestode parasites of vertebrates. CAB International.1994;768
12. Yamaguti S. Systema Helminthum. vol. II. The cestodes of vertebrates. Systema helminthum Vol II The cestodes of vertebrates; 1959.
13. Haukisalmi V. Checklist of tapeworms (Platyhelminthes, Cestoda) of vertebrates in Finland. ZooKeys. 2015(533):1-16.
14. Dimitrova YD, Georgiev BB, Mariaux J, et al. Two new cestode species of the family Hymenolepididae Perrier, 1897 (Cyclophyllidea) from passerine birds in Ethiopia, with the erection of Citrilolepis ng. Syst Parasitol. 2019;96(3):279-297.
15. Deardorff TL, Brooks DR. Passerilepis schmidti sp. n.(Cestoidea: Hymenolepididae) from the Blue Jay, Cyanocitta cristata L. in Nebraska. Proc Helminthol Soc Wash. 1978;45(2):190-2.
16. Illescas-gomez P, Gomez-garcia V, Jimenez-millan F. Passerilepis minor sp. n.(Cestoda: Hymenolepididae) from the blue magpie, Cyanocorax chrysops, in Paraguay. Proc Helminthol Soc Wash. 1987;54(1):118-21.
17. Rolan RG, Leidahl G. Mayhewia nebraskensis, sp. n., a cestode from the rock dove, Columba livia. Am Midl Nat. 1969;82(2):598-600.
18. Al-Moussawi AA, Al-Hamdany HS. Parasitic helminths of the Starling Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 in Baghdad city, central Iraq. Bull Iraq Nat Hist Mus. 2015;13(3):51-8.
19. Mobedi I, Sehhatisabet M, Razmjou E, et al. First record of Diplotriaena henryi Blanc, 1919 from the coal tit, Parus ater with new report from the great tit, Parus major in the Middle East. Helminthologia. 2006;43(4):239-241.
20. Halajian A, Eslami A, Mobedi I, et al. Gastrointestinal helminths of magpies (Pica pica), rooks (Corvus frugilegus) and carrion crows (Corvus corone) in Mazandaran Province, north of Iran. Iran J Parasitol. 2011;6(2):38-44.
21. Widmer VC, Georgiev BB, Mariaux J. A new genus of the family Hymenolepididae (Cestoda) from Sephanoides sephaniodes (Apodiformes, Trochilidae) in Northern Patagonia (Chile). Acta Parasitol. 2013;58(1):105-11.
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Mohtasebi S, Teimouri A, Abbaszadeh Afshar MJ, Abbasian H, Mobedi I, Allahmoradi M, Mowlavi G. First Report of Passerilepis parina (Cestoda: Hymenolepidi-dae) from Parus major in Iran: A Probable Fatal Case Due to Hyperinfection. Iran J Parasitol. 2021;16(3):518-523.
