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Cestoda from Rattus assimilis (Gould, 1858) from Australia**

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2009

Dorothea F. Sandars
Affiliation:
From Institut de Zoologie, Université de Neuchâtel, and Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Extract

Four species of adult cestodes and one larval form were recovered from Rattus assimilis (Gould, 1858) from Queensland. Hymenolepis diminuta Rudolphi, 1819; and the cysticercus of Taenia taeniae-formis (Batsch, 1786) are new host records for Australia; the same infestations with Raillietina (Raillietina) celebensis (Janicki, 1902) have also been recorded by Baer and Sandars (1956). Two new species, viz:—Choanotaenia ratticola and Hymenolepis australiensis are described.

The type specimens are lodged in the Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Cotype and other specimens studied are also lodged in the Queensland Museum and in the Institut de Zoologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland; the Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and in the British Museum (Natural History).

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1957

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