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Parasite
Volume 13, Number 3, September 2006
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Page(s) | 193 - 200 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2006133193 | |
Published online | 15 September 2006 |
Mémoire
New filarial nematode from Japanese serows (Naemorhedus crispus: Bovidae) close to parasites from elephants
Une nouvelle filaire (Nematoda) chez le serow du Japon, Naemorhedus crispus (Bovidae), proche de parasites d’éléphants
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Department of Medical Zoology, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka 545-8585, Japan
2
Parasitologie Comparée et Modèles Expérimentaux, Associée à l’INSERM (U567), CNRS IFR 101, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
3
Department of Environmental Health Science, Faculty of Medicine, Kochi University, Nankoku, Kochi, Japan
4
Animal Husbandry Research Center, Yamagata-ken Agricultural Co-op, Yamagata, Japan
5
Kitakyushu Museum and Institute of Natural History, Kitakyushu, Japan
6
Department of Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Applied Biological Science, Gifu University, Japan
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Department of Infectious Disease Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Japan
* Correspondence: Shigehiko Uni. Tel.: + 81 6 6645 3760 – Fax: + 81 6 6645 3762. E-mail: uni@med.osaka-cu.ac.jp
Received:
8
April
2006
Accepted:
11
July
2006
A new onchocercid species, Loxodontofilaria caprini n. sp. (Filarioidea: Nematoda), found in subcutaneous tissues of 37 (33%) of 112 serows (Naemorhedus crispus) examined in Japan, is described. The female worm had the characteristics of Loxodontofilaria, e.g., the large body size, well-developed esophagus with a shallow buccal cavity, and the long tail with three caudal lappets. The male worm of the new species, which was first described in the genus, had unequal length of spicules, 10 pairs of pre- and post-caudal papillae, and three terminal caudal lappets. Deirids were present in both sexes. Among four species of the genus Loxodontofilaria: one from the hippopotamus and three from the Elepantidae, L. caprini n. sp. appears close to L. asiatica Bain, Baker & Chabaud, 1982, a subcutaneous parasite of Elephas indicus in Myanmar (Burma). However, L. caprini n. sp. is distinct from L. asiatica in that the Japanese female worm has an esophagus half as long and the microfilariae also half as long with a coiled posterior. The microfilariae were found in the skin of serows. The new parasite appears to clearly illustrate a major event in the evolution of onchocercids: the host-switching. This might have occurred on the Eurasian continent, where elephantids and the lineage of rupicaprines diversified during the Pliocene-Pleistocene, or in Japan, into which some of these hosts migrated.
Résumé
Une nouvelle filaire sous-cutanée Loxodontofilaria caprini n. sp., Onchocercidae, est décrite chez Naemorhedus crispus, Caprinae, au Japon. Elle a les caractères de Loxondontofilaria, définis sur la femelle, seul sexe connu jusqu’à présent chez ce genre : corps de grande taille, oesophage développé mais absence de capsule buccale, queue longue, avec trois languettes terminales. Le mâle de L. caprini n. sp. a des spicules inégaux, 10 paires de papilles caudales, dont quatre paires précloacales, et trois languettes caudales. Deirides présentes dans les deux sexes. Parmi les quatre espèces décrites chez Loxodontofilaria, une d’hippopotame et trois d’Elephantidae, L. asiatica Bain, Baker & Chabaud, 1982, parasite sous-cutané d’Elephas indicus en Birmanie, est l’espèce la plus proche. L. caprini n. sp. s’en distingue par l’oesophage deux fois plus court, la microfilaire deux fois moins longue et à région postérieure enroulée. La prévalence de L. caprini est de 33% (sur 112 serows, 37 parasités). Les microfilaires sont dermiques. Cette nouvelle espèce illustre un phénomène majeur dans l’évolution des filaires Onchocercidae, les captures. Celle-ci a pu se faire sur le continent eurasiatique où les Elephantidae et les Rupricaprinii se diversifièrent durant le Plio- Pleistocène, ou bien après la migration de ces hôtes au Japon.
Key words: Loxondontofilaria caprini n. sp. / Onchocercidae / Naemorhedus crispus / serow / Caprinae / Bovidae / elephant / host-switching / Japan
Mots clés : Loxondontofilaria caprini n. sp. / Onchocercidae / Naemorhedus crispus / serow / Bovidae / Caprinae / élephant / capture / Japon
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