Gurltia paralysans is a parasite which attaches itself to the leptomeningeal veins of South American felinesGurltia paralysans (Wolffhügel, 1933): description of adults and additional case reports of neurological diseases in three domestic cats from southern Chile. Moroni M, Muñoz P, Gómez M, Mieres M, Rojas M, Lillo C, Aguirre F, Acosta-Jamett G, Kaiser M and Lindsay DS, Vet Parasitol., 23 MArch 2012, volume 184, issues 2–4, pages 377–380, It is the only species in the genus Gurltia
The genus name comes from Ernst Friedrich Gurlt (1794–1882), a German veterinarian and anatomist.
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