TABLE I. Reports of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in the Americas and in Hawaii, showing date of first report of adult parasite in chronological order, definitive hosts, and date of the first disease record in each geographical site. Numbers and symbol correspond to the references in Fig. 1 .

Nematode species	Reference in map	First record of adult parasite	Definitive host	First record disease	Accidental host	Geographical site	Literature consulted
Angiostrongylus cantonensis		1960	Rattus rattus	1960	Homo sapiens	Hawaii*	Alicata (1991)
			Rattus norvegicus
	1	1977	R. norvergicus	1981	H. sapiens	Cuba*	Aguiar et al. (1981)
	2	1980	Sigmodon hispidus	1980	H. sapiens	Costa Rica*	Núñez and Mirambell (1981)
			R. rattus
	3	1984	R. rattus R. norvegicus	1986	H. sapiens	Puerto Rico*	Anderson et al. (1986)
	4	1987	R. rattus	1990	Hylobates lyr	Bahamas, USA	Vargas et al. (1992)
			R. norvegicus
	5	1988	R. norvergicus	1992	Alouatta caraya	Louisiana, USA	Campbell and Little (1988), Cross (2004)
			Podomys floridanusa		Lemur variegatus
			Didelphis virginiana		Cercophitecus
			R. norvergicus		talapon
			Varecia variegata		H. sapiens
	6	1992	R. rattus	1992	H. sapiens	Republica	Vargas et al. (1992)
						Dominicana*
	7	1994	R. rattus	1994	H. sapiens	Jamaica*	Lindo et al. (2002)
			R. norvegicus
	8	2002	R. rattus	-	-	Puerto Principe, Haiti	Raccurt et al. (2003)
			R. norvergicus
	9	2003	R. rattus	2003	H.lyr	Florida, USA	Cross (2004), Duffy et al. (2004)
			R. norvergicus
	10	2007	R. norvegicus	2007	H. sapiens	Espírito Santo, Brazil	Caldeira et al. (2007)
	11	2008	R. norvergicus	2008	H. sapiens	Guayas, Ecuador	Martini-Robles and Dorta Contreras (2016)
	12	-	-	2009	H. sapiens	Pernambuco, Brazil	Lima et al. (2009)
	13	2010	R. norvergicus	2007	H. sapiens	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Simões et al. (2011)
							Morassutti et al. (2014)
	14		-	2010	H. sapiens	São Paulo, Brazil	Espírito Santo et al. (2013)
	15	2013	R. rattus	-	-	Pará, Brazil	Morassutti et al. (2014)
			R. norvergicus
	16	2013	R. norvergicus	2013	H. sapiens	Rio Grande do Sul,	Cognato et al. (2013)
						Brazil	Morassutti et al. (2014)
	17	2013	R. rattus	2013	H. sapiens	Guadalupe	Dard et al. (2017)
			R. norvegicus

^*the country capital coordinates were used since the localities were not provided. Registered as a: Neotoma floridanus.