Two New Species of Ascometra Kholodkovskii, 1912 (Cestoda: Paruterinidae) from the Kori Bustard, Choriotis kori (Burchell), in Kenya

Authors

Ann M. Adams, United States Food and Drug AdministrationFollow
Robert L. Rausch, University of WashingtonFollow

Date of this Version

2-1986

Comments

Published in the Journal of Parasitology (February 1986) 72(1): 101-106. Copyright 11986, the American Society of Parasitologists. Used by permission.

Abstract

Ascometra choriotidis n. sp. and Ascometra scheuermani n. sp. are described from a Kori Bustard, Choriotis kori (Burchell) (Gruiformes: Otididae), captured in Kenya. The two species are distinguished from Ascometra gutterae (Baylis, 1914) and Ascometra numida (Fuhrmann, 1909) (formerly placed in the genus Octopetalum Baylis, 1914) by the much larger number of testes in each segment. Ascometra choriotidis differs from Ascometra vestita Kholodkovskii, 1912, in the smaller proportional size of the cirrus sac, which extends mediad across less than half the space between the margin of the segment and poral ventral longitudinal excretory canal. From A. vestita and A. choriotidis, A. scheuermani is distinguished by its much longer cirrus sac. The findings support the earlier conclusion of Baer (1955) that Octopetalum Baylis, 1914 is a synonym of Ascometra Kholodkovskii, 1912.