Bronchostrongylus subcrenatus

From Felipedia

Bronchostrongylus subcrenatus is a metastrongyloid nematode parasite of the lungs of felids that is related to Aelurostrongylus abstrusus and which was originally reported from a leopard in the Congo. This has been reported on a single occasion from a cat in Africa, Blantyre, Nyasaland[1].

The males of this species have long slender spicules and the vulva from the female is posterior to the middle of the body rather than near the anus as in Aelurostrongylus. The adults are 10 to 23 mm long; about twice the length of the adults of Aelurostrongylus abstrusus. The life cycle of a related parasite Bronchostrongylus brevoir was described by Gerichter [2]. The adults are in Felis ocreata (Caffer cat) and Catolynx chaus (Jungle cat). First-stage larvae in the feces enter a suitable mollusk, and infective larvae are present in about eight days. The patent period for this other species was found to be 28 days in a kitten fed snails containing infective larvae.

Clinical signs have not been recorded and may be incidental parasites of large felids.