COMPENDIUM OF ANIMAL PARASITES REPORTED FOR 

 RATS AND MICE (GENUS MUS). 



By Ch. Wardell Stiles, Ph. D., Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, 



and 

 Albert Hassall, M. R. 0. V. S., Assistant, Division of Zoology, United States 



Bureau of Animal Industry. 



The following list of parasites is prepared from the detailed host 

 catalogues of the zoological divisions of the Public Health and Marine- 

 Hospital Service and the Bureau of Animal Industry. 



The species of hosts and parasites are taken as given by the various 

 authors. It is needless to say that no list of this kind can ever lay 

 claim to being complete. 



Genus MUS Linneaus, 1758. 

 [Mu^ musculus should be the type species.] 



MUS AGRABIUS.^ — Harvest Mouse. 



Cestoda: 



murina Dujardin: Hymenolepis. — Small intestine. [See fraterna.] 

 Nematoda: 



obvelata: Oxyuris. — Intestine. 

 Ahachnoidea: 



acuminatum Neumann: Ixodes. — External. 

 Insecta: 



fasciatus Bosc: Ceratophyllus. — External. 



musmli Dugfes: Ctenopsyllus, Ctenopsylla.— External. 



MUS AlBIPES. 



Insecta: 



pallidus Taschenberg: Pulex.— External. 



MUS ALEXANDRINUS.— Roof Rat. 



[See also Mus rattus alexandrinus.] 

 Cestoda: 



diminuta Rudolphi, 1819: Taenia, Hymenolepis.— Small intestine. 

 fasciolaris Rudolphi: Cysticercus.— Liver. 

 leptocephala: Taenia. — Small intestine. 



murina Dujardin: Hymenolepis.— Small intestine. [See fraterna.] 



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