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A new trematode (Digenea: Mesotretidae) from the horseshoe bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) in China.

Parasitology Research Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, South Siming Street 422, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, PR China.
Journal of Parasitology (impact factor: 1.4). 07/2009; 95(3):718-21. DOI:10.1645/GE-1512.1 pp.718-21
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ABSTRACT A new species of Mesotretes (Trematoda: Mesotretidae) parasitizing the small intestine of Rhinolophus ferrumequinum was obtained by the examination of 48 bats collected from 4 localities in Henan Province, China, from August 2003 to January 2005. This species, Mesotretes jiyuanensis n. sp., is similar to Mesotretes orientalis and Mesotretes hangzhouensis, but mainly differs from them in the ratio of the oral sucker and the ventral sucker, and the distance of the intestinal bifurcation from anterior edge of acetabulum, as well as from the former in the extension of the vitellarium. Mesotretes jiyuanensis n. sp. differs from Mesotretes peregrinus chiefly in the shape of the testes and the distribution of cuticular spines. The ratio of the oral sucker and the ventral sucker in this species also differs from that of M. peregrinus.

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Keywords

4 localities
 
anterior edge
 
cuticular spines
 
Henan Province
 
intestinal bifurcation
 
M. peregrinus
 
Mesotretes
 
Mesotretes hangzhouensis
 
Mesotretes jiyuanensis n. sp
 
Mesotretes orientalis
 
Mesotretes peregrinus
 
Mesotretidae
 
new species
 
oral sucker
 
Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
 
testes
 
ventral sucker
 
vitellarium
 

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