Folia Parasitologica 50[2] 115-120 (2003) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2003.020

Redescription of Pterygodermatites (Mesopectines) nycticebi (Mönnig, 1920) (Nematoda: Rictulariidae), a parasite of slow loris Nycticebus coucang (Mammalia: Primates)

Yatsukaho Ikeda1, Akiko Fujisaki1, Koichi Murata2, Hideo Hasegawa1
1 Department of Infectious Diseases and Research Centre for Asian and Caribbean Diseases, Oita Medical University, Hasama, Oita 879-5593, Japan
2 Department of Animal Resource Sciences, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 252-8510, Japan

Pterygodermatites (Mesopectines) nycticebi (Mönnig, 1920) (Nematoda: Spirurida: Rictulariidae) is redescribed based on immature and mature adults collected from the stomach and small intestine at autopsy of a slow loris, Nycticebus coucang (Boddaert, 1785) (Mammalia: Primates), in a zoological garden in Japan. It is first demonstrated that male possesses a minute telamon and a left lateral pore in the preanal part of body. The cause of death of the slow loris is strongly surmised to be related to the nematode infection, which was apparently acquired under captivity in the zoological garden.

Keywords: Nematoda, Rictulariidae, taxonomy, morphology

Received: May 28, 2002; Accepted: August 21, 2002; Published: June 1, 2003  Show citation

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Ikeda, Y., Fujisaki, A., Murata, K., & Hasegawa, H. (2003). Redescription of Pterygodermatites (Mesopectines) nycticebi (Mönnig, 1920) (Nematoda: Rictulariidae), a parasite of slow loris Nycticebus coucang (Mammalia: Primates). Folia Parasitologica, 50(2), 115-120. doi: 10.14411/fp.2003.020
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