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Gastrointestinal helminths of little blue penguins, Eudyptula novaehollandiae (Stephens), from Otago, New Zealand

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PARASITOLOGY INTERNATIONAL
卷 80, 期 -, 页码 -

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ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2020.102185

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Eudyptula novaehollandiae; Eudyptula minor; Parasite; Tetrabothrius; Spheniscidae; Contracaecum

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  1. Marsden Fund (Royal Society of New Zealand) [UOO1718]
  2. Zoology Department PBRF Research Enhancement grant
  3. Zoology Department student grant

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This study is the first to examine the gastrointestinal helminths of little blue penguins from southeastern South Island, New Zealand, revealing multiple helminth species and including new host and geographic records. The findings contribute to our understanding of the helminth community of New Zealand little blue penguins and provide new genetic data on helminth species for future comparisons.
Data regarding helminth communities can provide insights into health, feeding interactions, behaviour and evolution of their host organisms. Penguins (Spheniscidae) are important components of marine food webs and tracking their helminth communities can be indicative of ecosystem health. New Zealand is home to 5 of the world's 19 penguin species and little is known about their gastrointestinal helminths. Here, we provide the first study on the gastrointestinal helminths of little blue penguins from south-eastern South Island, New Zealand. The helminth community consisted of two species of tapeworm; Tetrabothrius lutzi and Tetrabothrius sp.; three nematode species, Contracaecum eudyptulae, Capillaria sp. and Stegophorus macronectes; two acanthocephalans, Andracantha sigma and Bolbosoma balaenae; and one trematode, Galactosomum otepotiense. The most prevalent parasites were T. lutzi, A. sigma, and C. eudyptulae. This work includes three new host records and five new geographic records. This is the first report of B. balaenae occurring in a host other than a marine mammal. This study adds to our knowledge about the helminth community of New Zealand little blue penguins, and includes new genetic data on helminth species, providing a baseline against which future studies may be compared.

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