{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,15]],"date-time":"2025-12-15T19:53:48Z","timestamp":1765828428148,"version":"3.40.4"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Cambridge University Press (CUP)","issue":"14","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2024,11,15]],"date-time":"2024-11-15T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1731628800000},"content-version":"unspecified","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["cambridge.org"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["Parasitology"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2024,12]]},"abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract<\/jats:title><jats:p>Wood mice (<jats:italic>Apodemus sylvaticus<\/jats:italic>) and bank voles (<jats:italic>Myodes glareolus<\/jats:italic>) are often employed as natural study models in infectious disease ecology. Yet the identities of some elements of their parasite fauna have been subject to long-standing confusion. One instance of this relates to 2 nominal species of the capillariid nematode genus <jats:italic>Aonchotheca<\/jats:italic>: <jats:italic>Aonchotheca annulosa<\/jats:italic> (Dujardin, 1845) and <jats:italic>A. murissylvatici<\/jats:italic> (Diesing, 1851). Through literature review, analysis of recorded host- and site-specificity and tracing of taxonomic precedence, it is possible to confirm that <jats:italic>A. annulosa<\/jats:italic> is a valid species with a spicule c. 1000 microns long, a small intestinal site of infection and a wide host range centred in murine rodents (with <jats:italic>A. sylvaticus<\/jats:italic> the most common host). On the other hand, tracing the provenance of <jats:italic>A. murissylavtici<\/jats:italic> through to the works of the early naturalists reveals it is best assigned as a <jats:italic>nomen nudum<\/jats:italic> (lacking sufficient establishing description) or a junior synonym of <jats:italic>A. annulosa<\/jats:italic> and does not have precedence for the other <jats:italic>Aonchotheca<\/jats:italic> morphotype commonly found in Eurasian rodents. The first description consonant with this other morphotype, which has a short spicule (200\u2013250 microns in length) and occurs primarily in the stomach of bank voles and other cricetids, was as <jats:italic>Capillaria halli<\/jats:italic> by Kalantarian in 1924. We thus recommend the suppression of <jats:italic>A. murissyvatici<\/jats:italic> in favour of <jats:italic>Aonchotheca halli<\/jats:italic> (Kalantarian, 1924) for this gastric-specialist short-spicule morphotype, particularly as the use of the <jats:italic>A. murissylvatici<\/jats:italic> name and its variants has previously been associated with substantial inconsistency and misidentification with <jats:italic>A. annulosa<\/jats:italic>.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s0031182024001471","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,11,15]],"date-time":"2024-11-15T09:31:02Z","timestamp":1731663062000},"page":"1497-1507","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/policypage","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["<i>Aonchotheca annulosa<\/i> and <i>Aonchotheca murissylvatici<\/i>, which is which? A reappraisal of the gastrointestinal <i>Aonchotheca<\/i> (Nematoda: Capillariidae) species common in wood mice and bank voles"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"151","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9396-2572","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jerzy M.","family":"Behnke","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0330-5478","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Joseph A.","family":"Jackson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,11,15]]},"container-title":["Parasitology"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/S0031182024001471","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,25]],"date-time":"2025-04-25T09:23:37Z","timestamp":1745573017000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/product\/identifier\/S0031182024001471\/type\/journal_article"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2024,11,15]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"14","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2024,12]]}},"alternative-id":["S0031182024001471"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/s0031182024001471","relation":{},"ISSN":["0031-1820","1469-8161"],"issn-type":[{"type":"print","value":"0031-1820"},{"type":"electronic","value":"1469-8161"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2024,11,15]]},"assertion":[{"value":"\u00a9 The Author(s), 2024. 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