PARASITES IN VOLES AT THE TERRITORY AROUND MAHNEVSKAYA ICE CAVE (PERM REGION)
Present study was carried out for the investigation of mammalians parasites formation in the territory of West Siberia and Ural. The analysis of parasitophauna of tundra vole (13 examples) and bank vole (20 examples) obtained from the territory around Mahnevskaya Ice Cave at the North of Perm region was performed. Corpses of rodents was investigated by the method of partial helminthological dissection. As a result, a distribution of intestinal helminthes at 38,46% in Microtus oeconomus and 20,0% in Myodes glareolus is found. The tundra vole is most infested by Notocotylus noyeri with an infection level at the 23.08% and Anoplocephalidae sp. with an infection index at the 15.38%. Hymenolepidid Cestodes are revealed only in the bank vole. All detected parasites are specific to voles of these species. That low level of infection as like an absence of parasites eggs in micromammalian coprolites from Midholocene cave sediments let conclude about comparatively recent establishment of parasitoses in two species of voles at the territory.