Neopronocephalus orientalis Sp. n. (Digenea: Pronocephalidae) and Spirhapalum elongatum Rohde, Lee, and Lim, 1968 (Digenea: Spirorchiidae) from Cuora amboinensis (Daudin) in Malaysia

Authors

Daniel R. Brooks, University of Notre DameFollow
James R. Palmieri, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Indiana

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1979

Citation

Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, v. 46, no.1 (1979)

Comments

Used by permission

Abstract

Neopronocephalus orientalis from Cuora amboinensis in Malaysia most closely resembles N. spinometraterminis from Kachuga tectum tentoria in India by possessing postovarian cecal tips and an average of more than 30 vitelline follicles, but differs by having equatorial rather than preequatorial testes which are mostly intercecal rather than extracecal and a slightly smaller cirrus sac, Neopronocephaius spinometraterminis purportedly has spines in the metraterm and a common genital pore, whereas N . orientalis exhibits nonstaining wrinkled epithelium lining the metraterm and separate genital pores. Spirhapalum elongatum was also collected from its type host near the type locality.