| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Authors: | O. M. Amin, Van Ha, N., Heckmann, R. A. |
| Journal: | Journal of ParasitologyJ. Parasitol. |
| Volume: | 94 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pagination: | 194 - 201 |
| Date Published: | 2008/// |
| ISBN Number: | 00223395 (ISSN) |
| Keywords: | Acanthocephala, Acanthocephala (worms), Acanthocephalus, animal experiment, Animals, Archiacanthocephala, Ariacanthocephala, article, Asia, controlled study, Cucullanorhynchus constrictruncatus, endoparasite, Eurasia, Felidae, Female, Helminthiasis, Animal, Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic, Intestines, invertebrate, Male, mammal, Mammalia, Mammals, Manidae, Manis pentadactyla, morphological trait, morphology, new genus, new record, new species, nonhuman, Oligacanthorhynchidae, Panthera, Panthera pardus, Panthera tigris, Paraprosthenorchis ornatus, Plagiorhynchidae, reptile, Reptiles, Reptilia, Southeast Asia, Spaerechinorhynchus macropisthospinus, Sphaerechinorhynchus macropisthospinus, taxonomic identification, taxonomy, Tigers, Varanidae, Varanus salvator, Viet Nam, Vietnam |
| Abstract: | Adults of 2 new species and 2 new genera of acanthocephalans in class Archiacanthocephala, collected between 1998 and 2004 in Vietnam from the intestines of mammals, are described, i.e., Cucullanorhynchus constrictruncatus n. gen., n. sp. (Oligacanthorhynchidae) from a leopard Panthera pardus (Linnaeus) (Mammalia: Felidae) and Paraprosthenorchis ornatus n. gen. n. sp. (Oligacanthorhynchidae) from the Chinese pangolin Manis pentadactyla (Linnaeus) (Mammalia: Manidae). Adult Sphaerechinorhynchus macropisthospinus Amin, Wongsawad, Marayong, Saehoong, Suwattanacoupt, and Sey, 1998 (Plagiorhynchidae) are described for the first time from 2 females collected from a tiger Panthera tigris (Linnaeus) (Mammalia: Felidae) and from 1 male from a water monitor Varanus salvator Laurenti (Reptilia: Varanidae). Characteristic features distinguishing the new species or genera from related taxa are as follows. The trunk of C. constrictruncatus has an anterior hood in both sexes and a posterior constriction in females. The anterior trunk of P. ornatus has many small festoons and proboscis hooks are inserted in elevated papillae separated by beady, near hexagonal, ornate grids. © American Society of Parasitologists 2008. |
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