Urotrema scabridum Braun, 1900

Moguel-Chin, Wilson I., Digiani, María Celina, Macswiney, M. Cristina, Ortega, Jorge, Ospina-Garcés, Sandra M., García-Prieto, Luis, Canché-Pool, Elsy B., Robles, María Del Rosario, Ávila-López, Mariana B., Chan-Casanova, Anyela Jackelin & Panti-May, Jesús Alonso, 2025, Intestinal helminths of bats in the States of Nayarit and Veracruz, Mexico, with redescription of Bidigiticauda vivipara Chitwood, Zootaxa 5566 (2), pp. 329-346 : 333

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scientific name	Urotrema scabridum Braun
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Urotrema scabridum Braun View in CoL

Site of infection: Small intestine

Host: Rhogeessa parvula

Locality: Cleofas (21°19’19.3” N, 106°14’41.6” W, 98 MASL), Islas Marías , Nayarit

Prevalence and intensity: 33.3% (1/3) and 1

Specimen deposited: CNHE 12133

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Comments: Based on a single specimen. Body elongate (3360 long and 485 wide), covered with fine spines ( Figure 2B View FIGURE 2 ). Oral sucker 145 long by 100 wide, ventral sucker 200 long by 140 wide. Pharynx 60 long by 50 wide. Ovary 250 long by 190 wide. Anterior testis 260 long by 270 wide, posterior testis 250 long by 225 wide. Eggs 15‒20 long by 10 wide.

Morphologically, the specimen fits the original description of U. scabridum ( Braun 1900) and recent records ( Martínez-Salazar et al. 2020). Urotrema scabridum has been recorded in several bat species in Mexico, such as Tadarida brasiliensis (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire) , Pteronotus mesoamericanus Smith (syn. Pteronotus parnellii Gray ), B. plicata , Pteronotus fulvus (Thomas) (syn. Pteronotus davyi Gray ), Pteronotus psilotis (Dobson) (syn. Pteronotus personatus Wagner ), Myotis velifer (Allen) , Mormoops megalophylla (Peters) in Morelos (see the checklist of Jiménez et al. 2017 and references therein), T. brasiliensis in Durango, Mexico State, Nuevo León, Zacatecas and Puebla, and Natalus mexicanus Miller in Mexico City ( Jiménez et al. 2017; Martínez-Salazar et al. 2020). This is the first record of U. scabridum in Nayarit and for G. mutica .

References

Braun, M. (1900) Trematoden der chiropterans. Annalen des K. K. Natur- historischen Hofmuseums, 15, 217 - 236.

Jimenez, F. A., Caspeta-Mandujano, J. M., Ramirez-Chavez, S. B., Ramirez-Diaz, S. E., Juarez-Urbina, M. G., Peralta-Ramirez, J. L. & Guerrero, J. A. (2017) Checklist of helminths of bats from Mexico and Central America. Journal of Parasite Biodiversity, 7, 1 - 28. https: // doi. org / 10.13014 / K 2 ZG 6 QDX

Martinez-Salazar, E. A., Medina-Rodriguez, A. J., Rosas-Valdez, R., Del Real-Monroy, M. & Falcon-Ordaz, J. (2020) First record of Urotrema scabridum (Platyhelminthes), and new redords of helminths of Tadarida brasiliensis from Mexican Plateau. Therya, 11, 181 - 192. https: // doi. org / 10.12933 / therya- 20 - 788

Figures

FIGURE 2. Helminths of bats from Nayarit and Veracruz, Mexico. A) Adult of Anenterotrema cf. hastati, ventral view. B) Adult of Urotrema scabridum, ventral view. C) Scolex of Vampirolepis macroti, apical view. D) Scolex of Vampirolepis sp. (1), apical view. E) Scolex of Vampirolepis sp. (2), lateral view. F) Male posterior extremity of Capillariidae gen. sp., ventral view. G) Esophagus-intestine junction and vulva of female Capillariidae gen. sp., lateral view. Scale bars: A, C, D, E = 100 μm; B = 1000 μm; F = 10 μm; G = 65 μm.