title: Contribution to the knowledge of helminthofauna of wild mammals of Somalia.
abstract: Within a survey of parasitic infections in wild mammals of Somalia, during the first semester of 1983 and the second of 1984, endoparasites were collected from 11 host species: Gazella soemmeringi, Gazella spekei, Madoqua saltiana, Phacochoerus aethiopicus, Xerus rutilus, Lepus sp., Genetta genetta, Herpestes (Galerella) sanguineus, Felis sylvestris libyca, Felis caracal, Canis mesomelas. A total of 22 species of helminths (20 nematode and 2 metacestode species) were identified. Lepus sp. is a new host for Heteroxinema (P.) proboscidiphora and Herpestes sanguineus for Oxinema sp. Teladorsagia hamata had not been previously reported in G. spekei; the genital cone and the corresponding supporting apparatus of this nematode are described. Two metacestodes were collected from the mesenteric membranes of a P. aethiopicus. The shape, number and length of their rostellar hooks, the size of the larvocysts, the occurrence of pseudostrobilum, are similar to those of the Taenia regis metacestode: but the size and shape of the hooks of the Somalian warthog larvocysts are slightly different and they have not been recovered from the musculature as previously reported in the intermediate hosts of T. regis.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Parassitologia, Università La Sapienza, Roma.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Iori
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lanfranchi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild / Q000469:parasitology*; D002589:Cestoda / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002590:Cestode Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary; D005260:Female; D006376:Helminths / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006725:Hookworm Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary; D008297:Male; D008322:Mammals / Q000469:parasitology*; D009348:Nematoda / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009349:Nematode Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary; D012998:Somalia / Q000453:epidemiology; D013621:Taenia / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000302:isolation & purification