New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts
New records of gastrointestinal helminths from the red-billed gull (Larus novaehollandiae scopulinus)
Brian l. Fredensborg
A. David Latham
Robert Poulin
Department of Zoology
University of Otago
P.O. Box 56
Dunedin, New Zealand
email: brianfredensborg@hotmail.com
Abstract Eight species of gastrointestinal helminths were obtained from the red-billed gull (Larus novaehollandiae scopulinus Forster, 1844) from Otago Peninsula, of which six were new host records. One of these, Maritrema novaezelandensis (Trematoda), was a species new to science which is being described elsewhere; the other five were Curtuteria australis (Trematoda), Echinoparyphium recurvatum (Trematoda), Cladogynia latovarium (Cestoda), Capillaria sp. (Nematoda), and Profilicollis novaezelandensis (Acanthocephala). Cladogynia latovarium (Cestoda) and Capillaria sp. (Nematoda) were present in 14 of the 16 birds.
Keywords trematodes; acanthocephalans; nematodes; cestodes; Larus novaehollandiae scopulinus; red-billed gull; Otago Peninsula
Z03008; Online publication date 4 March 2004; Received 27 February 2003; accepted 12 August 2003
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2004, Vol. 31: 75-80
0301-4223/04/3101-0075 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2004
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