Primeiro registro do nematoide Physaloptera praeputialis parasitando puma

Abstract

Physaloptera praeputialis is a ubiquitous nematode with an indirect life cycle which has orthopterans and coleopterans as intermediate hosts, and amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals as definitive hosts. Its adult forms feed on blood and colonize the esophagus, the gastric mucosa, and the small intestine. Although the existence of records at others wild carnivores, this is the first report of P. praeputialis in Puma yagouaroundi, which was picked up dead from a roadkill in Passo dos Fernandes, between Lages and São José do Cerrito, in the highland region of southern Brazil.