Gastrointestinal helminths (Cestoda, Chabertiidae and Heligmonellidae) of Pogonomys loriae and Pogonomys macrourus (Rodentia: Muridae) from Papua Indonesia and Papua New Guinea with the description of a new genus and two new species
Author
Smales, L. R.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3889
1
92
106
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3889.1.5
9a74f085-bc22-484d-b561-688f9b47a37a
1175-5326
224756
B71F16BF-B88C-4033-A544-D4ED38A724DC
Nippostrongylinae
species 2
(
Figs 4–8
)
Three males from a host collected 12 k north west of Tep Tep at
1900m
, Madang Province,
26. xi. 1975
by A. B. Mirza BBM NG 105004.
Coiled worms,
5.15 mm
long, 1100 wide; synlophe 15 ridges, ridge 1 largest dorsally, ridges 5’ 6’ largest ventrally at mid body. Cervical vesicle 37.5–55 long; oesophagus 350–375 long, deirids 250 from anterior end; excretory pore not seen. Bursa more or less symmetrical, dorsal lobe shorter than lateral lobe; spicules filiform, tips simple, 350–410, gubernaculum 37 long. The number and configuration of the ridges of the synlophe of these specimens do not resemble the features of any known species of the subfamily.