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On Gigantorhynchus pesteri n.sp from a Baboon*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2009

Girgis Tadros
Affiliation:
From the Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Extract

The material comprises two immature females found in a baboon in Rhodesia. So far as I can gather from the available literature, they appear to be the first record of the genus Gigantorhynchus Hamann, 1892, emend. Yamaguti, 1963 in monkeys; moreover, they are a new locality record of this genus in Africa, since all the hitherto known species occur only in South America (Brazil, Venezuela and Peru).

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Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1966

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References

Luz, Sarmiento, 1954.—“Gigantorhynchus ortizi n.sp., an acanthocephalan from Metachirus nudicaudatus.J. Parasit., 40, 448452.Google Scholar
Yamaguti, S., 1903.—Systema Hehninthum. Vol. V. Acanthocephala.Google Scholar