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Issue: Vol. 4722 No. 3: 14 Jan. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-01-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4722.3.6
Page range: 287–294
Abstract views: 124
PDF downloaded: 38

First description of male worms of Enterobius (Colobenterobius) serratus (Nematoda: Oxyuridae), the pinworm parasite of proboscis monkeys

Department of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, 879-5593 Japan.
Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Japan. Danau Girang Field Centre, c/o Sabah Wildlife Department, Wisma Muis, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Danau Girang Field Centre, c/o Sabah Wildlife Department, Wisma Muis, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Organisms and Environment Division, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
Danau Girang Field Centre, c/o Sabah Wildlife Department, Wisma Muis, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Wildlife Health, Genetic and Forensic Laboratory, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, U
Sabah Wildlife Department, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Danau Girang Field Centre, c/o Sabah Wildlife Department, Wisma Muis, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Organisms and Environment Division, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. Sabah Wildlife Department, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Department of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, 879-5593 Japan.
Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Japan.
Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Japan. Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Nematoda Pinworm primates Sabah Borneo Malaysia

Abstract

Males of Enterobius (Colobenterobius) serratus Hasegawa et al., 2003 (Nematoda: Oxyuridae) are described for the first time based on six individuals collected from the feces of proboscis monkeys, Nasalis larvatus, in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. The males show identical cephalic morphology to females, being readily distinguishable from their congeners by the serrated inner margins of the lips. The bicolored esophageal corpus, long thin spicule and developed spicular pouch with paired muscular bands are also remarkable characteristics, presumably shared by other Asian members of the subgenus.

 

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