Strongyloides ardeae

Strongyloides ardeae is a parasitic roundworm infecting the small intestine of yellow-crowned night heron, Nyctanassa violacea, and eastern green heron, Butorides virescens. It was first described from Louisiana.[1]

Strongyloides ardeae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Rhabditida
Family: Strongylidae
Genus: Strongyloides
Species:
S. ardeae
Binomial name
Strongyloides ardeae
Little, 1966

References
  1. Little, M. D. (1966). "Seven New Species of Strongyloides (Nematoda) from Louisiana". The Journal of Parasitology. 52 (1): 85–97. doi:10.2307/3276397. ISSN 0022-3395. JSTOR 3276397. PMID 5932110.

Further reading
  • Boyd, Elizabeth M. "Observations on nematodes of herons in North America including three new species and new host and state records." The Journal of parasitology (1966): 503–511.
  • Schmidt, Gerold D., and Albert G. Canaris. "Acanthocephala from Kenya with descriptions of two new species." The Journal of parasitology (1967): 634–637.
  • Yoshino, Tomoo, et al. "First record of the genus Strongyloides (Nematoda; Rhabditoedea) obtained from a fairy pitta, Pitta brachyura nympha." Bull Tokushima Pref. Mus 22 (2012): 1–6.


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