A new genus of capillariids from birds, Tridentocapillaria gen. n. (Nematoda: Capillariidae) |
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| Authors: | V Barus T P Sergeeva |
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| Institution: | Institute of Systematical and Ecological Biology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Brno. |
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| Abstract: | A new genus of the family Capillariidae, Tridentocapillaria gen. n., has been established. A type species is Tridentocapillaria tridens (Dujardin, 1845) comb. n. Other species of this genus are T. eurycerca (Oschmarin et Parukhin, 1963) comb. n., T. parusi (Wakelin, Schmidt et Kuntz, 1970) comb. n., and T. javanensis (Wakelin, Schmidt et Kuntz, 1971) comb. n. The new genus is characterized by the presence of a trilobed pseudobursa formed by three processes, and a vulvar appendage is always present in females. The genus includes species parasitic in the intestine of birds of the orders Passeriformes and Piciformes. |
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