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Neoheligmonella Durette-Desset 1971

  • 1. CONICET. División Zoología Invertebrados, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s / n, 1900 La Plata (Argentina) mdigiani @ fcnym. unlp. edu. ar
  • 2. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département de Systématique et Évolution, UMR 7138, associée au CNRS case postale 52, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) mcdd @ mnhn. fr

Description

KEY TO SPECIES INCERTAE SEDIS PLACED IN THE FORMER GENUS NEOHELIGMONELLA

1. SpL/BL 12-14%. Parasites of Mastomys erythroleucus from Nigeria............................................................................................................................... N. affinis (Baylis, 1928)

— SpL/BL less than 12% or more than 14%.................................................................. 2

2. Bursal pattern of type 2-2-1 Parasites of Rattus rattus from Kenya.................................................................................................................................... N. kenyae (Yeh, 1958)

— Bursal pattern of type 2-3 tending to 2-2-1................................................................ 3

3. Dorsal ray medium-sized, divided within median length, rays 9 not curved, female tail thin. Parasite of Mus (Nannomys) musculoides from Nigeria ............. N. gracilis (Baylis, 1928)

— Dorsal ray long, divided within distal extremity, rays 9 curved, female tail thick......... 4

4. SpL/BL less than 10%. Parasites of Gerbilliscus (Taterona) kempi and Arvicanthis spp. from Nigeria............................................................................... N. impudica (Baylis, 1928)

— SpL/BL more than 20%. Parasites of Praomys tullbergi, Malacomys edwardsi and Cricetomys emini from Nigeria............................................................. N. moennigi (Baylis, 1928)

Notes

Published as part of Digiani, MarÍa Celina & Durette-Desset, Marie-Claude, 2013, Taxonomic revision of the genus Neoheligmonella Durette-Desset, 1971 (Nematoda, Heligmonellidae) parasitic in Muridae mainly from the Ethiopian Region, pp. 479-488 in Zoosystema 35 (4) on page 487, DOI: 10.5252/z2013n4a2, http://zenodo.org/record/5165292

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References

  • BAYLIS H. A. 1928. - On a collection of nematodes from Nigerian mammals (chiefly rodents). Parasitology 20: 280 - 304.
  • YEH L. S. 1958. - On a new bursate nematode, Longistriata kenyae sp. nov. from the house rat, Rattus rattus kijabius in Kenya and the erection of a new genus Longistrioides. Journal of Helminthology 32: 89 - 92.