Trichuris cf travassosi Gomes, Lanfredi, Pinto & De Souza, 1992

Site of infection. caecum

Collection number. MLP-He7345

Host species. Nectomys squamipes . CG44

Locality. RVSU

Comments. The morphological characters observed in the two male specimens collected agree with the original description given by Gomes et al. (1992), i.e. males without spicular tube; proximal cloacal tube united laterally to distal cloacal tube and cylindrical spicular sheath with spines irregularly distributed.

This species was described for O. nigripes from Arvorezinha, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil (Gomes et al. 1992).

This is the first record of the genus Trichuris in N. squamipes and T. cf. travassosi for Argentina.