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- Title
Specific Identity of Kalicephalus Molin, 1861 (Nematoda: Diaphanocephalidae) Specimens Collected from the Albino Japanese Ratsnake, Elaphe climacophora (Boie, 1826) (Serpentes: Colubridae).
- Authors
Hasegawa, Hideo; Asakawa, Mitsuhiko
- 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.
- Subjects
IWAKUNI-shi (Japan); ELAPHE; SNAKE morphology; NEMATODE identification; ANIMAL species
- Publication
Current Herpetology, 2017, Vol 36, Issue 1, p22
- ISSN
1345-5834
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5358/hsj.36.22