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The Cestode Parasites of the Sheathbill, Chionis alba (Gmelin), from Signy Island, South Orkney Islands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

N. V. Jones  and
I. C. Williams
N. V. Jones
Affiliation:
Departmant of Zoology, The University, Hull
I. C. Williams
Affiliation:
Departmant of Zoology, The University, Hull
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The Sheathbill is a distinctive bird breeding on the islands of the Scotia Arc and the Graham Land peninsula, and regularly occurring north to the Falkland Islands, the Magellanic Islands and the Atlantic coast of Argentina (Jones, 1963). Rather surprisingly no cestodes have previously been recorded or described from this bird.

The following account describes Nototaenia fileri gen. et sp. nov. and Lateriporus ausiralis n.sp. from two of 13 adult Sheathbills collected on Signy Island in July and October 1965 by Mr Charles Howie of the British Antarctic Survey, preserved in deep-freeze, and later entrusted to us for examination.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Helminthology , Volume 41 , Issue 2-3 , June 1967 , pp. 151 - 160
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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