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A new coccidian, Wenyonella hoarei n.sp. from an Indian squirrel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Harendra Nath Ray  and
Matiranjan Das Gupta
Harendra Nath Ray
Affiliation:
From the Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta
Matiranjan Das Gupta
Affiliation:
From the Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta
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Extract

In June 1935 we observed in the intestine of an Indian squirrel, Sciurus sp.1, a coccidium which, since it has tetrazoic tetra-sporocystid oocysts, must be placed in the genus Wenyonella recently created by Hoare (1933).2

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 1937 , pp. 117 - 120
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1937

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