Rhopaliidae Looss

Santos, Cláudia Portes & Gibson, David I., 2015, Checklist of the Helminth Parasites of South American Bats, Zootaxa 3937 (3), pp. 471-499 : 480

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3937.3.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F7CAD672-4865-411B-A5C7-D46AB3A2299D
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6102007
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A18784-532D-6256-FF6B-FCF9FD14FBFA
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Rhopaliidae Looss
status

Treatment

Family Rhopaliidae Looss

Species of this rare group occur mainly in marsupials from the Americas, but occasionally in other in omnivorous mammals (and birds). The life-cycle is not known, but bats likely acquire the parasite by the ingestion of metacercariae encysted on the surface of vegetation or on/in molluscs or other invertebrates.

Rhopalias Stiles & Hassall

Species: R. coronatus ( Rudolphi, 1819)