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A Trichostrongylid, Paracooperia mazabukae sp. nov., from a wild ruminant, the Oribi, in Northern Rhodesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2009

P. L. Leroux
P. L. Leroux
Affiliation:
Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Several specimens of a trichostrongylid, for which the name Paracooperia mazabukae sp. nov. is proposed, were collected from the duodenum of the Oribi (Ourebia ourebi), a small African antelope, in vicinity of the Nega Nega hills in the Mazabuka area, Northern Rhodesia.

Four species of Paracooperia Travassos, 1985, have hitherto been recorded from the small intestine of ruminants. Schwartz (1929) based his description of Cooperia nodulosa on specimens collected from nodules in the mucosa of the small intestine of a carabao (Bubalis bubalis) in the Philippine Islands. Mönnig (1981) described Cooperia serrata, since designated as the type of the genus Paracooperia Travassos, from the springbuck (Antidorcas marsupialis), not Damaliscus albifrons as recorded by Daubney (1988) who records Cooperia serrata Mönnig, 1931, as having been collected frequently from sheep in the Rift Valley and the Athi Plains in Kenya. Daubney notes that the normal host of this helminth has not yet been discovered in Kenya.

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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 24 , Issue 1-2 , August 1950 , pp. 28 - 32
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1950

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