The Research Bulletin of the Meguro Parasitological Museum No. 8 (June 1982)

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  • Untersuchungen am Typenmaterial einiger von Rudolphi, Molin and von Linstow beschriebener Setaria-Arten (Filarioidea: Nematoda). (Eine nachträgliche morphologisch-taxonomische Studie an Museums-Material) (in German)
    C. Shoho ----- pp. 1-33
    
    Reexamination of the type materials of some Setaria species (Filarioidea: Nematoda), such as S. caelum, S. bubali, S. bidentata, S. carnuta, S. bicoronata and S. transversata, was mede possible by the kind collaboration of the Natural History Museum of Stockholm, Vienna and Berlin. Some Setaria specimens, relating to the above mentioned spp., and preserved in the Natural History Museum of Paris and in the Commonwealth Institute of Helminthology, St. Albans, as well as those, collected recently by the staffs of the Tropical Institute of Hamburg, were also studied for comparison. The examination resulted in acknowledgeing the validity of all six spp., examined, and erecting Setaria linstowi n. sp. out of the co-type material of S. transversata, "pretended as from Troglodytes niger". On the material of this new species the scanning electron microscopic study could be made through his kind permission of the Museum Authority of Berlin.
    
    
  • Ovarionematobothrium saba n. sp. (Didymozoidae), a new trematode parasite of the ovary of a marine fish, Pneumatophorus japonicus, from Japan.
    Sh. Kamegai & T. Shimazu ----- pp. 35-38
    
    Ovarionematobothrium saba n. sp. (Trematoda: Didymozoidae) is described from the ovary of a marine fish, Pneumatophorus japonicus, caught off the Pacific coast of central Japan. This species is the second in the genus and is distinguished from the type and only other species in the genus, O. texomense (McIntosh et Self, 1955) Yamaguti, 1971 by having a much shorter body, strongly winding female genital organs (ovary, vitellaria and uterus) smaller eggs, by lacking the acetabulum, and by parasitizing a marine teleost.
    
    
  • Morphological study of setaria javensis Vevers, 1922 (Filarioidea: Nematoda) recovered from Tragulus kanchil.
    J. Araki, C. Shoho, H. Kamiya & N. Ohtaishi ----- pp. 39-44
    
    Setaria worms recovered from mouse-deer, Tragulus species, was studied by the light and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The characteristic morphlogical feature of this species could be illustrated more clearly by the SEM pictures. In this study the bosses were observed on the cuticle and the post-deirid was detected also in the female as in the male worm. Fine cuticular appearance and deirids as well as post deirids are well visualized in the SEM picture.
    
    
• RESEARCH NOTE
  
  
  • The flame cell pattern of the metacercariae of Heterophyes heterophyes nocens Onji et Nishio, 1916 and Stellantchasmus falcatus Onji et Nishio, 1916 (Heterophyidae: Trematoda).
    N. Suzuki ----- pp. 45-46
    
    
  • An apharyngeal, furcocercous cercaria from Lymnaea natalensis in Ethiopia.
    N. Suzuki & T. Hara ----- pp. 47-48
    
    
  • Redescription of Pseudohadinorhynchus leuciscus (Krotov et Petrotschenko, 1956).
    M. Machida & J. Araki ----- pp. 49-51