Bufonerakis andersonin. gen. (Nematoda: Heterakoidea) fromBufo arenarumof South America
- 1 March 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Helminthology
- Vol. 54 (1) , 49-53
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x00006349
Abstract
Bufonerakis andersonin. gen. n. sp. fromBufo arenarumof Argentina is described.Bufonerakisis proposed for species in the Subfamily Meteterakinae with a short muscular vagina and opposed uteri. The other genera in the subfamily,MeteterakisKarve, 1930, andGireterakisLane, 1917, have an elongate vagina divided into a short muscular portion and long common uterine trunk giving rise to two parallel uteri in the posterior third of the worm.Meteterakis rodriguesiVicente and Corrêa Gomes, 1971, is reclassified asBufonerakis rodriguesin. comb.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- The evolution, host relationships and classification of the nematode superfamily HeterakoideaBulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology, 1967
- A revision of the nematode genus Meteterakis Karve, 1930Parasitology, 1958