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Nematode parasites of Oceanica XIII. Subuluridae, Thelaziidae and Ascaridiidae of birds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Gerald D. Schmidt  and
Robert E. Kuntz
Gerald D. Schmidt
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado 80631, and Parasitology Department, Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, and Division of Microbiology, Southwest Foundation for Research and Education, San Antonio, Texas 78228
Robert E. Kuntz
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado 80631, and Parasitology Department, Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, and Division of Microbiology, Southwest Foundation for Research and Education, San Antonio, Texas 78228
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Some species in Subuluridae, Thelaziidae and Ascaridiidae are discussed. Subulara helicospicula sp.nov. from malcohas and a bulbul from Borneo is described. It differs from other species in having long, unequal spicules which are helical throughout their distal half. Allodapa suctoria (Molin, 1860) Seurat, 1914, is reported from several species of birds from Taiwan, Borneo and Palawan. A. turnicis (Maplestone, 1931) Inglis, 1958, was found in the button quail, Turnix sustator on Palawan.

Thelazia digiticauda Schuurmans-Steckhoven, 1937, is redescribed from specimens recovered from the eyes of a ruddy kingfisher, Halcyon coromanda from Taiwan. Ceratospira inglisi sp.nov. from a cockatoo in Palawan and a pigeon in Borneo differs in spicule size from the three species so far described. Oxyspirura {Y.) mansoni (Cobbold, 1879) Skrjabin, 1931, was recovered from bamboo partridges, Bambusicola thoracica, from Taiwan, and Oxyspirura (0.) popawi Skrjabin, 1929, was found in the eyes of a swallow, Hirundo daurica in Taiwan.

Ascaridia columbae (Gmelin, 1790) Travassos, 1913, was common in a variety of pigeons in Borneo and Palawan, and A. subaequalis (Wehr, 1930) was found in the lesser coucal, Centropus bengalensis in Taiwan and in a common coucal, C. sinensis in Palawan.

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Parasitology , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , August 1971 , pp. 91 - 99
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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