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1 April 1975 Babesia moshkovskii (SCHURENKOVA, 1938) LAIRD AND LARI, 1957; FROM THE PRAIRIE FALCON, Falco mexicanus, IN WYOMING; WITH COMMENTS ON OTHER PARASITES FOUND IN THIS HOST
ROBERT EARL CROFT, NEWTON KINGSTON
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Abstract

Babesia moshkovskii*† was found in the blood of 6 of 30 downy (D) Prairie Falcons and in none of 5 adults (A) from Wyoming. Intestinal parasites included Neodiplostomum (C.) spathula*† (A,3), Cladotaenia globifera*, (A,1), Physaloptera sp.†, (A,1), and Serratospiculum amaculatum†, (A,4). Omithodorus concanensis, (D,3), Thrassis francisi*, (D,1), Opisocrostis sp*, (D.1), Degeeriella rufa, (D,2), Simulium (E.) canonicola*† (D,2), and an unidentified hippoboscid fly*, (D,2) were external parasites. It is considered that the soft tick, O. concanensis, is the most likely vector of the hematozoon. The morphological forms of B. moshkovskii are described and discussed. This is the first report of an avian babesoid on this continent. (*new host record, †new distribution record).

CROFT and KINGSTON: Babesia moshkovskii (SCHURENKOVA, 1938) LAIRD AND LARI, 1957; FROM THE PRAIRIE FALCON, Falco mexicanus, IN WYOMING; WITH COMMENTS ON OTHER PARASITES FOUND IN THIS HOST1
ROBERT EARL CROFT and NEWTON KINGSTON "Babesia moshkovskii (SCHURENKOVA, 1938) LAIRD AND LARI, 1957; FROM THE PRAIRIE FALCON, Falco mexicanus, IN WYOMING; WITH COMMENTS ON OTHER PARASITES FOUND IN THIS HOST," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 11(2), 229-233, (1 April 1975). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-11.2.229
Received: 23 September 1974; Published: 1 April 1975
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