Comparative Parasitology 67(1) 2000 - Peru State College
Comparative Parasitology 67(1) 2000 - Peru State College
Comparative Parasitology 67(1) 2000 - Peru State College
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Table 1. <strong>Comparative</strong> measurements (mm) of Popovastrongylus wallabiae from Macropus rufogiseus<br />
Mawson, 1939), and from Launceston and Pipers River, Tasmania.<br />
New South Wales<br />
Female<br />
Male<br />
(« = 5)<br />
6.0-9.5 (7.7)<br />
0.22-0.40 (0.33)<br />
Male<br />
11.4<br />
—<br />
8.4<br />
—<br />
0.025-0.045<br />
0.80<br />
Popovastrongylus tasmaniensis sp. n. is readily<br />
distinguished from its congeners by its oval<br />
mouth opening and buccal capsule, in having the<br />
intestinal wall extending anteriorly to surround<br />
the esophageal bulb, and spicules longer than<br />
1150 (Jim. Popovastrongylus pearsoni, which<br />
also occurs in M. rufogriseus from Tasmania<br />
(Mawson, 1977), has a distinct shelf-like projec-<br />
0.025-0.03 (0.025) X 0.048-0<br />
1.00-1.09 (1.04)<br />
0.23-0.33 (0.27)<br />
0.40-0.48 (0.44)<br />
0.48-0.64 (0.56)<br />
0.84-0.97 (0.92)<br />
—<br />
—<br />
—<br />
—<br />
—<br />
—<br />
—<br />
—<br />
—<br />
0.80<br />
0.30<br />
—<br />
0.25<br />
—<br />
—<br />
0.80<br />
—<br />
—<br />
—<br />
Remarks<br />
TYPE SPECIMENS: Holotype male SAMA<br />
AHC 31310; allotype female SAMA AHC<br />
31311; paratypes 5 male, 10 female SAMA<br />
AHC 19844.<br />
TYPE HOST: Thylogale billardierii (Desmarest,<br />
1822).<br />
TYPE LOCALITY: Launceston, Tasmania.<br />
SITE OF INFECTION: Stomach.<br />
SPECIMENS STUDIED: Types from T. billardierii,<br />
from Tasmania; 10 male, 14 female from<br />
Launceston, collectors D. Obendorf, I. B everidge,<br />
20 February 1990, 18 November 1991,<br />
SAMA AHC 19844, AHC 19791, AHC 26578;<br />
3 male, 4 female from Piper's River, collector<br />
D. Obendorf, 26 January 1983, SAMA AHC<br />
16373, AHC 31312; 1 female from Georgetown,<br />
collector D. Obendorf, 28 June 1982, SAMA<br />
AHC 16398; 2 female from Golconda, collector<br />
I. Beveridge, April 1977, SAMA AHC 13925.<br />
ETYMOLOGY: The name of the new species<br />
refers to its type locality.<br />
— 0.13 X 0.07 —<br />
Length<br />
Width<br />
Buccal capsule:<br />
Width X depth<br />
Esophagus<br />
Deirids<br />
Nerve ring<br />
Excretory pore (from anterior end)<br />
Spicules<br />
Vulva to posterior<br />
Tail<br />
Vagina<br />
Eggs<br />
I t!J j<br />
Copyright © 2011, The Helminthological Society of Washington<br />
vations on internal surface of bursa. Anterior lip