TABLE 2. Heminths from the digestive tract of 34 Rattus niobe collected from Papua New Guinea and Papua, Indonesia.
Taxon Site in Host Prevalence % Intensity
Acanthocephala
Moniliformida
Moniliformis moniliformis Travassos, 1915 small intestine 5.9 1–3
Cestoda stomach, small intestine caecum 44.1 not determined
Nematoda
Ascaridida
Ascarididae
Toxocara mackerrasae (Sprent, 1957) stomach 2.9 1
Heterakidae
Heterakis sp. Smales, in press caecum 41.2 1–8
Subul Subulura andersoni (Cobbold, 1876) caecum 2.9 3
Juvenile forms caecum 17.6 1–3
Enoplida
Trichuridae
Eucoleus sp. small intestine 17.6 1–4
Trichuris muris (Schrank, 1788) caecum 5.9 1–3
Oxyurida
Oxyuridae
Syphacia (Syphacia) niobe n. sp. caecum 79.4 1–220
Syphacia sp. caecum 2.9 2
Spirurida
Spiruridae
Protospirura kaindiensis Smales, 2001 stomach 14.7 1–7
P. muricola Gedoelst, 1916 stomach 41.2 1–10
Strongylida
Strongylina
Chabertiidae
Cyclodontostomun purvisi Adams, 1933 caecum 5.9 1
Trichostrongylina
Heligmonellidae
Nugininema titokis n. gen., n. sp. small intestine 5.9 1–9
Rodentanema aenigma n. gen., n. sp small intestine 5.9 4
Nippostrongylinae species 1 small intestine 11.7 1–11
Nippostrongylinae species 2 small intestine 11.7 2–4
heligmonellid small intestine 2.9 1