title: Redescription of Heligmosomoides neopolygyrus, Asakawa and Ohbayashi, 1986 (Nematoda: Heligmosomidae) from a Chinese rodent, Apodemus peninsulae (Rodentia: Muridae); with comments on Heligmosomoides polygyrus polygyrus (Dujardin, 1845) and related species in China and Japan.
abstract: Heligmosomoides neopolygyrus, Asakawa and Ohbayashi, 1986 (Nematoda, Heligmosomoidea) is redescribed from Apodemus peninsulae from Rangtang, Sichuan, China. A morphological review of the Heligmosomoides spp. belonging to the "polygyrus line" proposed by Asakawa (1988) is made using new characters. This enabled us to distinguish two subspecies in Mus musculus (Heligmosomoides polygyrus bakeri from Japan and H. p. polygyrus from China) and two valid species in Apodemus spp. (H. neopolygyrus from Japan (in A. peninsulae) and from China (in A. agrarius) and H. asakawae from China (in A. uralensis)). Three parasite species of A. agrarius and A. peninsulae, previously identified by Asakawa et al. (1993) as H. neopolygyrus, are considered to be Heligmosomoides incertae sedis. This is the first report of H. neopolygyrus in A. peninsulae from China.
authors.affiliation: Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, UMR 7207 CNRS-MNHN-UPMC "Centre de recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements - CR2P". MNHN, Paris Cedex, France.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Massoni
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Durette-Desset
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Quéré
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Audebert
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D006369:Heligmosomatoidea / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D051189:Murinae / Q000469:parasitology*; D009351:Nematospiroides dubius / Q000145:classification; D012376:Rodent Diseases / Q000469:parasitology*; D017206:Strongylida Infections / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary*