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Specific Identity of Kalicephalus Molin, 1861 (Nematoda: Diaphanocephalidae) Specimens Collected from the Albino Japanese Ratsnake, Elaphe climacophora (Boie, 1826) (Serpentes: Colubridae)
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Abstract
Abstract:
Nine male and eight female adult nematodes in the genus Kalicephalus reported from albino Japanese ratsnakes, Elaphe climacophora from Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, were re-examined to confirm their taxonomic placement. Previously, these nematodes were identified as K. natricis
Yamaguti, 1935
, despite the fact that the name had been regarded by some earlier authors as a species inquirenda. Our close re-examination of the morphological characters of both sexes suggests that those worms actually belong to K.
sinensis
Hsü, 1934
, which has been recorded from several Japanese snakes, including E. climacophora.
Accepted 23 12月 2016
Acknowledgments:
We wish to thank Dr. T. Iwaki, Meguro Parasitological Museum, for his kindness in giving us opportunity to examine the specimens deposited there.
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