Rhipicephalus carnivoralis sp.nov. (Ixodoidea, Ixodidae) A new species of tick from East Africa

Parasitology ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane B. Walker
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
East Africa ◽  
East Coast ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Research Organization ◽  
East Coast Fever ◽  
East African ◽  
Veterinary Research ◽  
A New Species

A description is given of the male, female, nymph and larva of Rhipicephalus carnivoralis sp.nov., a parasite of carnivores in East Africa, and its affinities within the genus are discussed.Its developmental periods under laboratory conditions are given and its hosts and distribution in the field are recorded.The author wishes to thank the Director of the East African Veterinary Research Organization for permission to publish this paper. She is also most grateful to all who made field collections of this species for her; to the British Museum (Natural History), London, for the loan of specimens from their collection; to J. P. J. Ross for the loan of specimens from his collection and to D. W. Brocklesby and K. P. Bailey, who carried out the experiments on the transmission of East Coast fever. Dr G. Theiler, Mr G. H. Yeoman, Mr G. M. Kohls, Dr C. M. Clifford and Dr H. Hoogstraal kindly checked the manuscript before publication and made helpful suggestions. Finally, she would like to thank Professor P. C. C. Garnham and Dr Charles Wilcocks for their advice on the name of this tick.

Babesia pantherae sp.nov., a piroplasm of the leopard (Panthera pardus)

Parasitology ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 525-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. K. Dennig ◽  
D. W. Brocklesby
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Research Organization ◽  
Panthera Pardus ◽  
Domestic Cats ◽  
East African ◽  
Veterinary Research ◽  
A New Species

A large Babesia species was found in a leopard (Panthera pardus) in Kenya. It was established in domestic cats but no other animal was found to be susceptible. The parasite has been compared with other piroplasms of felids and it was found to differ from them in some significant characters. It was established as a new species and named Babesia pantherae.We would like to thank Miss B. O. Vidler for her assistance, Dr S. F. Barnett for many helpful discussions and Professor N. D. Levine for pointing out the need for this description.The parasite was isolated when we were working at the East African Veterinary Research Organization at Muguga in Kenya and we are most grateful to that organization for facilities.

scholarly journals Memoirs: Glossobalanus marginatus, a new species of Enteropneusta from the North Sea

1922 ◽  
Vol s2-66 (264) ◽  
pp. 579-594
Author(s):  
ALEXANDER MEEK
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
North Sea ◽  
New Genus ◽  
East Coast ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The North ◽  
The Family ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
A New Species

The specimen described was captured off the Northumber-land coast on August 22, 1921, and its discovery extends the range of the Enteropneusta to the North Sea and to the east coast of the British Isles. It also adds a new genus to the British list. It belongs to the family Ptychoderidae and to the genus Glossobalanus, but it presents features which indicate that it is a new species which has been called Glossobalanus marginatus. It has been suggested that it may be related to a larva which has also been found in the North Sea. It is a pleasure to express grateful thanks to Sir S. F. Harmer and Mr. Kirkpatrick of the British Museum of Natural History--to the former for valuable guidance in literature, and to the latter for an opportunity of examining the museum's collections of Enteropneusta.

A new species of Stygeromyia (Family Muscidae, Sub-family Stomoxydinae) from the East Africa Protectorate

1912 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-98
Author(s):  
Ernest E. Austen
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
East Africa ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The Third ◽  
Ethiopian Region ◽  
A New Species

The genus Stygeromyia, so far as is at present known, is confined to the Ethiopian Region. The species described below, of which the type is in the British Museum (Natural History), is the third to be discovered.

A description of six new species of the genus Cryptochaetum (Diptera-Agromyzidae) from East Africa and East Indies; together with a key to the adults and larvae of all known species

Parasitology ◽  
1941 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. H. Thorpe
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Research Laboratory ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Veterinary Research ◽  
Imperial Institute ◽  
New Material ◽  
The Subject

The material here described was mostly obtained as a result of a period of study and travel in East Africa in 1939. Two of the species were reared from Coccidae of the genus Aspidoproctus at Amani, Tanganyika Territory, and their life, history is the subject of an accompanying paper. I am greatly indebted to Dr F. W. Edwards, F.R.S., for allowing me to describe the remarkable species collected by him on Ruwenzori, Uganda, in 1935. I am also most grateful to Dr R. H. Le Pelley of the Scott Agricultural Laboratories, Nairobi, and Dr E. A. Lewis of the Veterinary Research Laboratory, Kabete, Nairobi, for other valuable new material. In addition, The Imperial Institute of Entomology has kindly allowed me to examine and describe material from Uganda in their possession which had been erroneously identified as Cryptochaetum iceryae (Will.). Type specimens of all species will be deposited in the British Museum.

A new species of Stenampyx Karsch, 1890 from East Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Pseudophyllinae, Phyllomimini)—evidence of a former connection of West-Central and East African forests

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4763 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-599
Author(s):  
CLAUDIA HEMP
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Africa ◽  
West African ◽  
East African ◽  
West Central ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
A New Species

A new Stenampyx, S. viridiflavum n. sp., is described from Tanzania. Stenampyx was monotypic and known from Central to West African forests. As with the genus Pseudotomias Hemp, the newly described species in Stenampyx shows a close relationship to the Central and East African forest fauna. 

Monocystid gregarines of Nigerian earthworms. I. Adelphocystis aeikineta gen.nov., sp.nov. from the coelom of Keffia variabilis Clausen, 1963

Parasitology ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. E. G. Cox
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Peristaltic Motion ◽  
Morphological Basis ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

Adelphocystis aeikineta, a new species of monocystid gregarine, is found in the coelom of the earthworm Keffia variabilis in which the trophozoites occur in large numbers in permanently associated pairs. They are large, measuring 750–1500, μm in length, and exhibit continual peristaltic motion. The ectosarc of the trophozoite is markedly striated and there is no evidence of any anterior differentiation. The gametocytes are rounded and the presumed bipolar sporocysts measure 12–14·5 μm in length. Some associated pairs occur in groups enclosed in a membrane and there is evidence that gametocytes may form under these conditions. A. aeikineta is placed in the subfamily Zygocystinae and separated from Zygocystis on its elongate shape. The site of infection of this gregarine, and others recently described, suggests that the morphological basis on which the family Monocystidae is divided into subfamilies and genera is inadequate and a sounder classification should take into account these sites of infection.The material on which this paper is based was collected while I was in receipt of a Wellcome Trust Travelling Grant, and I wish to thank the Trust for this support. It is also a pleasure to thank Mr R. W. Sims of the British Museum (Natural History) who identified the earthworms, Dr Keith Vickerman who helped me to collect them and Mr R. B. Freeman who advised me on the nomenclature.

On Styphlodora elegans n.sp. and Styphlodora compactum n.sp., trematode parasites of Python reticulatus in Malaya, with a key to the species of the genus Styphlodora Looss, 1899

Parasitology ◽  
1941 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Dawes
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Entire Collection ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Trematode Parasites

Numerous specimens of a trematode which has proved to be a new species were collected from the kidneys of 'Ular sawa’ (Python reticulatus) at Alor Star and at Kedah, Malaya, by Mr G. B. Purvis, F.R.C.V.S. One batch comprises about 350 specimens, another one more than 150, and the entire collection of five batches exceeds 600 specimens. For this new species the name Styphlodora elegans is proposed. Mr Purvis also collected a single specimen of what seems to be a second new species from the stomach of the python at Alor Star, and for this the name Styphlodora compactum is proposed. Type specimens of the two new species are lodged in the British Museum (Natural History), London.

Confirmation of the identity of the type host of the louse Halipeurus fallacis (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4407 (1) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
RICARDO L. PALMA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Descriptive Data ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Type Host ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
A New Species

Alexander (1954: 489) recorded a petrel (Aves: Procellariiformes) captured alive on board a ship in the Indian Ocean by Mr W.W.A. Phillips who, after removing some lice, liberated it the following morning. Alexander (1954) identified that petrel as the species “Pterodroma aterrima Bonaparte”, now placed in the genus Pseudobulweria. The lice were kept in the collection of the then British Museum (Natural History), now the Natural History Museum, London, England. Jouanin (1955) published a new species of petrel from the Indian Ocean as Bulweria fallax. Jouanin (1957: 19) discussed the identity of the petrel identified by Alexander (1954) as Pterodroma aterrima, stating that the descriptive data given by Alexander (1954) did not clearly fit either P. aterrima or B. fallax. However, considering the geographical coordinates where the bird was captured, Jouanin (1957) believed it was more likely Bulweria fallax. 

Cissampelos keniensis (Menispermaceae), a new species from Mt. Kenya, East Africa

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 292 (1) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
YA-DONG ZHOU ◽  
YUVENALIS MBUNI ◽  
GUANG-WAN HU ◽  
ZHI-XIANG ZHONG ◽  
XUE YAN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Eastern Slope ◽  
East African ◽  
African Species ◽  
A New Species

Cissampelos keniensis, a new species of Menispermaceae described and illustrated here, was collected from the rainforest on the eastern slope of Mt. Kenya. It is distinguished from all other tropical East African species in the genus by its cordate leaves, 4-locular synandrium, glabrous drupes and suborbicular-bilaterally compressed endocarp. A key to distinguish among the eight species of Cissampelos known from tropical East Africa is proposed.

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