title: Molineus cati n. sp. (Nematoda, Trichostrongylina, Molineoidea), a parasite of feral cats, Felis catus Linnaeus, 1758 in South Africa.
abstract: A new species of the genus Molineus Cameron, 1923 was recovered from feral cats, Felis catus Linnaeus, 1758, in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. Because of a caudal bursa with rays of the 2-1-2 type, but with the extremities of rays 4 nearer those of rays 3 than those of rays 5, the new species is closely related to seven Neotropical Molineus spp., four parasitic in Primates, two parasitic in Mustelidae and one a parasite of Procyonidae. Amongst these species, only Molineus barbaris Cameron, 1936, a parasite of Tayra barbara (Mustelidae) from Trinidad and Molineus vexillarius (Dunn, 1961), a parasite of Tamarinus nigricollis (Primates) from Peru have rays 4 longer than two-thirds the length of rays 3, like the new species. However, the new species is differentiated from the other two in that rays 9 arise at the level of the bifurcation of the dorsal ray and not after the division as is the case with M. barbaris and M. vexillarius.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biologie parasitaire, Protistologie, Helmintologie, C.N.R.S., Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Durette-Desset
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Boomker
authors.forename: F S
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Malan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000469:parasitology*; D002415:Cats; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D013019:South Africa; D017183:Strongylida / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D017206:Strongylida Infections / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary*