Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of
Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty and Staff Publications
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
1980
Citation
Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, v. 47, no.2 (1980)
Abstract
Marine testudines are known to host two species of kathlanid nematodes, Kathlania leptura (Rudolphi, 1819) Travassos, 1918 and Tonaudia tonaudia (Lane, 1914) Travassos, 1918, Each species has been reported infrequently but exhibits a wide geographic distribution. Both K. leptura and T. tonaudia have been reported from Ceylon and from the Mediterranean Sea near Egypt, and K. leptura has been reported also from the coast of Brazil (Skrjabin, Shikhobalova, and Lagodovskaya, 1964, in Skrjabin (ed,) Essentials of Nematodology, vol. 13, part 3, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, English translation, 1976, TT75-50011, U.S. Department of Commerce, NTIS, Springfield, Virginia 22151), This study reports K. leptura from the east African coast for the first time.
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