Abstract
Monitoring of the helminth fauna of small rodents living on drainage channel banks on arable lands was carried out in 2017 in Brest Polesie (western part of Belarusian Polesie). 1,000 trap-days were worked out and 190 animals of 6 species were caught. The common vole was dominant, the striped field mouse was the subdominant. The total infection of rodents with helminths was 76.8%. 24 species of helminths were found. The nematode Syphacia nigeriana Baylis, 1928 more often invaded common and root voles, the nematode Heligmosomoides polygyrus (Dujardin, 1845) - stripped field and yellow-necked mice, the nematode Heligmosomum mixtum Schulz, 1954 - red-backed voles. The trematode Psilotrema spiculigerum (Muhling, 1898) (host: common vole) and the acanthocephalan Moniliformis moniliformis (Bremser, 1811) (host: striped field mouse) were not previously recorded in small rodents on channel banks. Four species of helminths have medical and veterinary significance.
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