NEMATODE PARASITES OF BRAZILIAN CICONIIFORMES BIRDS - A GENERAL SURVEY WITH NEW RECORDS FOR THE SPECIES

This report deals with the identification of one hundred and fifty-nin e samples of nematodes recovered from Brazilian egrets and herons Cont racaecum microcephalum, C. multipapillatum, C. plagiaticium, Desportes ius invaginatus, D. longevaginatus, Desmidocercella ardeae, Eustrongyl ides ignotus, Porrocaecum reticulatum, Tetrameres micropenis, Capillar ia sp., Contracaecum sp., Porrocaecum sp., Procyrnea sp., Tetrameres s p. and Viktorocara sp, were studied The genus Viktorocara and the spec ies C. microcephalum, C. plagiaticium, D. invaginatus, D. ardeae and P . reticulatum are referred in Brazil for the first time.