Harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) and grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) are final hosts of acanthocephalans in the German North and Baltic Seas. Parasitic infections in seals can cause pathological changes, which may result in deteriorated health of the host. Common gastrointestinal parasites of harbour and grey seals are acanthocephalans and a number of 275 of 2460 (11.2%) investigated seals from 1...

Only a few cases of Acanthocephala infections have been reported in humans, and Moniliformis moniliformis is the most common species around the world. We report here a case of infection with M. moniliformis, which passed in the stool of a 2-year-old girl in Iran. The patient had abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and facial edema. According to her mother, the patient had habit of eating dirt a...

We recorded the parasitic fauna of Hoplias malabaricus in a Neotropical River from southeastern Brazil, Jacaré-Pepira River, Tietê-Batalha Basin. The objective this study was to inventory composition H. collected, through ecological and biodiversity approaches. A total 30 specimens were collected 2018 using fishing nets. Parasites prevalent 96.6% hosts, with 710 parasites divided into 22 specie...

We report a dataset of all known and published occurrence records animals the phylum Rotifera, including Bdelloidea, Monogononta, Seisonacea (with exclusion Acanthocephala) for Africa surrounding islands archipelagos. The includes 24,704 914 taxa (subspecies: 38; species: 783; genus: 76; family: 17), gathered from 610 papers. literature spans 1854 to 2022, with highest number in decades 1990-19...