Coccidia (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) From Small Mammals Of The Southwestern Sandhills In Nebraska, Usa

Occasional Papers of the Museum 337: 1-16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15748572 ABSTRACT Coccidian parasites of the genus Eimeria (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) were prepared and studied from small mammals collected from late July through early August during 2012 and 2013 on and around the area of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Cedar Point Biological Station, north of Ogallala, Nebraska.

Habitats from which mammals were sampled included riparian, great-plains grasslands, and sandhills-grasslands. Twelve species representing 11 genera of small mammals were studied to begin to understand diversity of parasites in the area. Rodents of the following species were examined: Geomys lutescens Merriam, 1890; Dipodomys ordii Woodhouse, 1853; Perognathus flavescens Merriam, 1889; Chaetodipus hispidus (Baird, 1858); Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque, 1818); Peromyscus maniculatus (Wagner, 1845); Reithrodontomys megalotis (Baird, 1857); Onychomys leucogaster (Wied-Neuwid, 1841); Microtus ochrogaster (Wagner, 1842); Zapus hudsonius (Zimmerman, 1780); and Spermophilus tridecimlineatus (Mitchill, 1821).