New Host and Locality for Kathlania leptura (Rudolphi) (Nematoda: Oxyurata: Kathlanidae)

Authors

Daniel R. Brooks, University of British ColumbiaFollow
Jack Frazier, National Zoological Park Smithsonian Institution

Date of this Version

1980

Citation

Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, v. 47, no.2 (1980)

Comments

Used by permission

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.