title: Syphacia (Syphacia) maxomyos sp. n. (Nematoda: Oxyuridae) from Maxomys spp. (Rodentia: Muridae) from Sulawesi and Sumatra, Indonesia.
abstract: The present report describes Syphacia (Syphacia) maxomyos sp. n. (Nematoda: Oxyuridae) from two species of spiny rats, Maxomys musschenbroekii from Sulawesi and M. whiteheadi from Sumatra. It is characterized by a cephalic plate extending laterally with dorsoventral constriction and stumpy eggs with an operculum rim reaching pole. It is readily distinguishable by the former feature from all of hitherto known representatives of this genus in Indonesia, but it resembles parasites in Murini and Hydromyni rodents in continental Asia and Sahul. This is the first Syphacia species distributed in both the Sunda Shelf and Sulawesi with the exception of Syphacia muris, a cosmopolitan pinworm found in rodents of the of genus Rattus. It is surmised that S. maxomyos is specific to Maxomys and that it was introduced to Sulawesi by dispersal of some Maxomys from the Sunda Shelf.
authors.affiliation: Zoology Division, Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, RC. Biology-LIPI, Jl. Raya Jakarta-Bogor, Km. 46. Cibinong, West Java 16911, Indonesia.
authors.forename: Kartika
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dewi
authors.forename: Hideo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: Yuli Sulistya
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Fitriana
authors.forename: Mitsuhiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Asakawa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D007214:Indonesia / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D009115:Muridae / Q000469:parasitology*; D009349:Nematode Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary*; D010124:Oxyuroidea / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*; D012376:Rodent Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology*