First record of Synhimantus (S.)laticeps (Rudolphi, 1819) Railliet, Henry et Sisoff, 1912 (Nematoda, Acuariidae) in Accipiter nisus (Aves, Accipitridae) in Turkey

Şinasi UMUR, Yunus Emre, Gökmen Zafer, Mustafa AÇICI, Ali Tümay
2010 Ankara Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Dergisi  
One female and two male nematodes were identified as Synhimantus (Synhimantus) laticeps (Rudolphi, 1819) Railliet, Henry et Sisoff, 1912 in the postmortem examination of a female goshawk's gizzard (Accipiter nisus) which was brought to our Parasitology Laboratory by the Directorship of Environmental and Forestry authorities of Samsun, Turkey in September, 2008. Some morphological features, measures and photographs of the nematodes were given within this report. To our knowledge, this is the
more » ... t report of Synhimantus (S.) laticeps and also the genus from Turkey.
doi:10.1501/vetfak_0000002325 fatcat:hqbg72wmnzaltn3nwdr6rr5p3u