| Literature DB >> 16539010 |
Hideo Hasegawa1, Yatsukaho Ikeda, Akiko Fujisaki, Liza R Moscovice, Klara J Petrzelkova, Taranjit Kaur, Michael A Huffman.
Abstract
The chimpanzee pinworm, Enterobius (Enterobius) anthropopitheci (Gedoelst, 1916) (Nematoda: Oxyuridae), is redescribed based on light and scanning electron microscopy of both sexes collected from the feces of chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, of an introduced population on Rubondo Island, Tanzania. Enterobius (E.) anthropopitheci is characterized by having a small body (males 1.13-1.83 mm long, females 3.33-4.73 mm long), a rather straight spicule with a ventral membranous formation in males, double-crested lateral alae in females, small eggs (53-58 by 24-28 microm), and a smooth eggshell with 3 longitudinal thickenings. Morphological comparison is made between the present and previous descriptions.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16539010 DOI: 10.1645/GE-569R.1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Parasitol ISSN: 0022-3395 Impact factor: 1.276