REDESCRIPTION OF HASSALSTRONGYLUS ADUNCUS CHANDLER, 1932 (NEMATODA: HELIGMONELLIDAE), WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS AND THEIR PHYLOGENETIC POSITION WITH OTHER HELIGMOSOMOIDEA TRAVASSOS, 1914.

Hassalstrongylus Durette-Desset, 1971 (Nematoda: Heligmonellidae), includes 19 species that are distributed from the southwestern United States to central-western Argentina. Hassalstrongylus aduncus is a parasitic nematode of rodents from the subfamilies Arvicolinae, Murinae, and Sigmodontinae, and has been recorded from southern Virginia and Oklahoma to Costa Rica. This species was described by Chandler in 1932; the morphology of the synlophe was not included.

Nematofauna of Rodents of the Families Heteromyidae and Cricetidae from the Mexican Plateau.

As a part of an ongoing project to inventory the helminth parasites of rodents in Mexico, 85 specimens of 2 families of rodents were collected from the Mexican Plateau: Cricetidae ( Neotoma sp., Neotoma leucodon , Onychomys arenicola , Peromyscus sp., Peromyscus eremicus , and Reithrodontomys sp.

Lagochilascaris minor (Nematoda: Ascarididae) from a Wild Cougar ( Puma concolor ) in Mexico.

We document parasitation of a wild cougar ( Puma concolor ) by the nematode Lagochilascaris minor in Hidalgo State, Mexico. This finding contributes to our understanding of the epidemiology of this zoonotic agent in Mexico.