Oslerus osleri

  

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Lungworms Classification Biology and Ecology
Morphology and Anatomy Life Cycle
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Distribution Management
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Classification:

Chromadorea

  Rhabditia

    Rhabditida

      Metastrongyloidea

        Filaroididae

       
Oslerus osleri (Cobbold, 1879) Hall, 1921

Type species of the genus

Synonyms

Filaroides osleri Cobbold, 1979

Species named in honor Sir William Osler who recovered it from dogs in 1877 in Montreal. Canada.
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Morphology and Anatomy:

Morphologiy of male spicules is an important diagnostic characteristic.

   
   





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Female:  

 

 

Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:

 
 
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Distribution:

Reported from coyotes (Canis latrans), domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and gray wolves (Canis lupus) in North America. Fox (Lycalopex vetulus) in Brazil

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Feeding:

 Filaroid parasites of the mucosa of trachea, bronchi and other components of the respiratory tract of canids.

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Biology and Ecology:

  Adult nematodes are located in nodules in the submucosa of the trachea and bronchi of the host. Submucosal nodules of adult nematodes are surrounded by fibrosis and lymphoplasmacytic inflammation (Verocai et al., 2013).. 

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Life Cycle:

 
   

Ecophysiological Parameters:

For Ecophysiological Parameters for this species, click If species level data are not available, click for genus level parameters
 
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Ecosystem Functions and Services:

 

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Management:

 

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References:

Verocai, G.O., Schock, D.M., Lejeune, M., Warren, A.L., Duignan, P.J., Kutz, S.J. 2013. Oslerus osleri (Metastrongyloidea; Filaroididae) in Gray Wolves (Canis lupus) from Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. J. Wildlife Diseases 49:422-426. https://doi.org/10.7589/2012-07-186

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Revised: March 22, 2024.