Hassalstrongylus

Hassalstrongylus is a genus of nematode worms that infect mostly muroid rodents from eastern North America to South America. The genus is part of the Heligmonellidae and related to genera like Stilestrongylus.


 * Hassalstrongylus aduncus (Sigmodon hispidus, Rattus sp.)
 * Hassalstrongylus argentinus
 * Hassalstrongylus beta
 * Hassalstrongylus bocqueti (Oryzomys couesi, Handleyomys melanotis, Oligoryzomys fulvescens)
 * Hassalstrongylus chabaudi (Wiedomys pyrrhorhinos)
 * Hassalstrongylus dessetae (Neacomys sp.)
 * Hassalstrongylus dollfusi (Mus musculus)
 * Hassalstrongylus echalieri (Oryzomyini sp.)
 * Hassalstrongylus epsilon (Nectomys squamipes, Akodon cursor)
 * Hassalstrongylus forresteri
 * Hassalstrongylus hoineffae (Oligoryzomys nigripes, Calomys callosus, Wiedomys pyrrhorhinos)
 * Hassalstrongylus lichtenfelsi
 * Hassalstrongylus mazzai
 * Hassalstrongylus musculi (Oryzomys couesi, Handleyomys melanotis, Oligoryzomys fulvescens)
 * Hassalstrongylus proechimysi
 * Hassalstrongylus puntanus (Graomys griseoflavus)
 * Hassalstrongylus schadi
 * Hassalstrongylus zeta (Galea spixii, Cerradomys subflavus, Nectomys squamipes, Oligoryzomys nigripes, Akodon cursor, Euryoryzomys russatus)

The proposed species Hassalstrongylus multiovatus, described from Akodon simulator, is a synonym of Trichofreitasia lenti from Oligoryzomys flavescens.

Literature cited

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 * Pérez-Ponce de Léon, G., Gardner, S.L. and Falcón-Ordáz, J. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships among species of Stilestrongylus Freitas, Lent and Almeida, 1937 (Trichostrongyloidea: Heligmonellidae: Nippostrongylinae), parasites of myomorph rodents (Rodentia: Muridae) in the Neotropics. Journal of Parasitology 86(6):1326–1335.
 * Underwood, H.T., Owen, J.G. and Engstrom, M.D. 1986. Endohelminths of three species of Oryzomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae) from San Luis Potosi, Mexico (subscription required). The Southwestern Naturalist 31(3):410–411.
 * Pérez-Ponce de Léon, G., Gardner, S.L. and Falcón-Ordáz, J. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships among species of Stilestrongylus Freitas, Lent and Almeida, 1937 (Trichostrongyloidea: Heligmonellidae: Nippostrongylinae), parasites of myomorph rodents (Rodentia: Muridae) in the Neotropics. Journal of Parasitology 86(6):1326–1335.
 * Underwood, H.T., Owen, J.G. and Engstrom, M.D. 1986. Endohelminths of three species of Oryzomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae) from San Luis Potosi, Mexico (subscription required). The Southwestern Naturalist 31(3):410–411.