Borderlands Research Institute, Department of Natural Resource Management, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas 79832.
J Parasitol. 2021 Jan 1;107(1):138-140. doi: 10.1645/20-101.
Quail populations in the United States have been declining for several decades, and the role that parasites may be playing in this decline is not well understood. The goal of this study was to document novel parasites that inhabited the scaled quail, Callipepla squamata, of the Trans-Pecos ecoregion of Texas. To do this, quail were collected by hunter-harvest, night-netting, and funnel-trapping and were necropsied in the laboratory to determine the parasites they hosted. After analyzing 386 birds, we identified Dispharynx sp. in one of the samples. This specimen is the first to be officially documented in scaled quail.
几十年来，美国的鹌鹑数量一直在减少，而寄生虫在这一下降过程中可能扮演的角色尚未得到充分理解。本研究的目的是记录栖息在德克萨斯州跨平原生态区的栗背短脚鹌鹑（Callipepla squamata）体内的新型寄生虫。为此，通过猎人采集、夜间网捕和漏斗诱捕收集鹌鹑，并在实验室进行剖检以确定其携带的寄生虫。在分析了 386 只鸟类后，我们在其中一个样本中发现了 Dispharynx sp.。这一标本是首次在栗背短脚鹌鹑中正式记录到的。
