Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of
Date of this Version
10-15-2013
Citation
Occasional Papers, Texas Tech University Museum (October 15, 2013) number 319, 8 p.
Abstract
Pritchardia boliviensis n. gen. n. sp. (Anoplocephalidae: Linstowiinae) is described from marsupials (Marmosops noctivagus, Metachirus nudicaudatus, Gracilinanus sp.) collected in Bolivia and Paraguay. These cestodes have a very small strobila with only three segments, regularly alternating genital pores, genital ducts crossing excretory canals ventrally, ovoid to pyriform cirrus sac, three to five testes, external seminal vesicle present and separated from cirrus sac by long seminal duct surrounded by glandular material, uterus ephemeral, eggs forming rapidly in gravid segments, and seminal receptacle present. Pritchardia boliviensis n. sp. includes a single species that occurs in small marsupials in the family Didelphidae of the lowlands and Yungas of Bolivia and Atlantic forests of Paraguay.
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