Syphacia (Syphacia)
maxomyos sp. n. (Nematoda: Oxyuridae) from Maxomys
spp. (Rodentia: Muridae) from Sulawesi and Sumatra,Indonesia |
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| Authors: | Kartika DEWI Hideo HASEGAWA Yuli Sulistya FITRIANA Mitsuhiko ASAKAWA |
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| Institution: | 1)Zoology Division, Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, RC. Biology-LIPI, Jl. Raya Jakarta-Bogor, Km. 46. Cibinong, West Java 16911, Indonesia;2)Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Hasama, Yufu, Oita 879–5593, Japan;3)Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Hokkaido 069–8501, Japan |
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| Abstract: | The present report describes Syphacia
(Syphacia) maxomyos sp. n. (Nematoda:
Oxyuridae) from two species of spiny rats, Maxomys musschenbroekii from
Sulawesi and M. whiteheadi from Sumatra. It is characterized by a
cephalic plate extending laterally with dorsoventral constriction and stumpy eggs with an
operculum rim reaching pole. It is readily distinguishable by the former feature from all
of hitherto known representatives of this genus in Indonesia, but it resembles parasites
in Murini and Hydromyni rodents in continental Asia and Sahul. This is the first
Syphacia species distributed in both the Sunda Shelf and Sulawesi with
the exception of Syphacia muris, a cosmopolitan pinworm found in rodents
of the of genus Rattus. It is surmised that S. maxomyos
is specific to Maxomys and that it was introduced to Sulawesi by
dispersal of some Maxomys from the Sunda Shelf. |
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| Keywords: | Indonesia Maxomys Nematoda new species Syphacia |
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