CONODIPLOSTOMUM-ASYMMETRICUM SP-N (NEODIPLOSTOMIDAE, CRASSIPHIALINAE), FROM NIVIVENTER-CREMORIVENTER (MURIDAE) FROM YUNNAN PROVINCE OF THE PEOPLES-REPUBLIC-OF-CHINA

Authors
DRONEN NO HOMESLEY ZN CLEVELAND AG
Citation
No. Dronen et al., CONODIPLOSTOMUM-ASYMMETRICUM SP-N (NEODIPLOSTOMIDAE, CRASSIPHIALINAE), FROM NIVIVENTER-CREMORIVENTER (MURIDAE) FROM YUNNAN PROVINCE OF THE PEOPLES-REPUBLIC-OF-CHINA, Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 62(2), 1995, pp. 131-134
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology
Journal title
Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington → ACNP
ISSN journal
1049233X
Volume
62
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
131 - 134
Database
ISI
SICI code
1049-233X(1995)62:2<131:CS(C>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
One of 6 pencil-tailed rats, Niviventer cremoriventer, collected from Yunnan Province, Peoples Republic of China, in August 1987, was infect ed with 5 specimens of an undescribed species of Conodiplostomum (Neod iplostomidae). Conodiplostomum asymmetricum sp. n. differs from existi ng species of Conodiplostomum in having a larger body size (3,050-3,30 0 mu m), smaller eggs (65-80 mu m), the forebody shorter than the hind body, the acetabulum located in the upper 1/3 of the forebody, and usi ng a mammalian host.