Ectoparasites of 18 free-living Cuban Ground Doves, Columbina passerina insularis (Columbiformes: Columbidae), captured in the National Zoological Park, Havana, Cuba, were identified. The collected ectoparasites included two species of lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera): Columbicola passerinae (77.1%), and Physconelloides eurysema (50%), as well as four species of feather mites (Astigmata: Falculiferidae): Pterophagus lomatus (83.3%), Byersalges talpacoti (50%), Byersalges phyllophorus (72.2%), and Hyperaspidacarus tridentatus (27.7%). Pterophagus lomatus, B. phyllophorus, and H. tridentatus represent new records for Cuba.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9901865 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1984-29612021096 | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
Ectoparasites of Columbina passerina insularis (Columbiformes) in the National Zoological Park, Havana, Cuba.
Rev Bras Parasitol Vet
January 2022
Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Concepción, Chile.
Ectoparasites of 18 free-living Cuban Ground Doves, Columbina passerina insularis (Columbiformes: Columbidae), captured in the National Zoological Park, Havana, Cuba, were identified. The collected ectoparasites included two species of lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera): Columbicola passerinae (77.1%), and Physconelloides eurysema (50%), as well as four species of feather mites (Astigmata: Falculiferidae): Pterophagus lomatus (83.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA Comprehensive Cytogenetic Analysis of Several Members of the Family Columbidae (Aves, Columbiformes).
Genes (Basel)
June 2020
School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NJ, UK.
The Columbidae species (Aves, Columbiformes) show considerable variation in their diploid numbers (2n = 68-86), but there is limited understanding of the events that shaped the extant karyotypes. Hence, we performed whole chromosome painting (wcp) for paints GGA1-10 and bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) probes for chromosomes GGA11-28 for , , , and . was only investigated with paints because BACs for GGA10-28 had been previously analyzed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpecialized Feathers Produce Sonations During Flight in Columbina Ground Doves.
Integr Comp Biol
November 2020
Field Research Station at Fort Missoula, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA.
The shape of remiges (primary and secondary feathers) is constrained and stereotyped by the demands of flight, but members of the subfamily of New World ground doves (Peristerinae) possess many atypical remex shapes with which they produce sonations of alarm. Within the genus Columbina specifically, the seventh primary feathers (P7) have elongated barbs that create a protrusion on the trailing vane which varies in size and shape between species. These feathers are hypothesized to have been coopted to produce communicative sounds (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo new Haemoproteus species (Haemosporida: Haemoproteidae) from columbiform birds.
J Parasitol
June 2013
Institute of Ecology, Nature Research Centre, Akademijos 2, Vilnius 21, LT 08412, Lithuania.
Here we describe Haemoproteus (Haemoproteus) multivolutinus n. sp. from a tambourine dove (Turtur timpanistria) of Uganda and Haemoproteus (Haemoproteus) paramultipigmentatus n.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiversity and phylogenetic relationships of hemosporidian parasites in birds of Socorro Island, México, and their role in the re-introduction of the Socorro dove (Zenaida graysoni).
J Parasitol
April 2013
Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132, USA.
The Socorro dove Zenaida graysoni , endemic to Socorro Island, was last reported in the wild in 1972. Fortunately, the species has been propagated in zoos in Europe and the United States, and plans are under way to re-introduce it to its native habitat. This will be the first known attempt to return a bird species extinct in the wild to its ancestral island.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWant AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!