Burhinotaenia colombiana n. sp. (Cestoda, Cyclophyllidea) from the Double-Striped Stone Curlew Burhinus bistriatus (Aves, Charadriiformes) in Colombia

Authors

Boyko B. Georgiev, Bulgarian Academy of SciencesFollow
Éva Murai, Hungarian Natural History Museum
Robert L. Rausch, University of WashingtonFollow

Date of this Version

2-1996

Comments

Published in the Journal of Parasitology (February 1996) 82(1): 140-145. Copyright 1996, the American Society of Parasitologists. Used by permission.

Abstract

Burhinotaenia colombiana n. sp. (Dilepididae) is described from the small intestine of the double-striped stone curlew Burhinus bistriatus (Burhinidae) captured at Carimagua, Colombia. The new species is distinguished from the most similar Burhinotaenia delachauxi (Baer, 1925), a parasite of the Old World Burhinus spp., by the longer cirrus-sac (375-590, average 514 μm vs. 322-393, average 354 μm) and longer rostellar hooks (412-451, average 440 μm vs. 358-367, average 364 μm). The validity of the genus Burhinotaenia Spasskii and Spasskaya, 1965 and its generic diagnosis as proposed by Bona (1994) are confirmed. This is the first record of a species of Burhinotaenia in the New World.