Dr. Éva Murai szerk.: Miscellanea Zoologica Hungarica 1. 1982 (Budapest, 1982)
Murai, É.: Taeniid species in Hungary (Cestoda: Taeniidae). II. Larval stages of taeniids parasitizing rodents and lagomorphs
Taeniid species in Hungary (Cestoda: Taeniidae). II. Larval stages of taeniids parasitizing rodents and lagomorphs By É. MURAI (Received February 15, 1981) ABSTRACT. Examination of 6654 rodent and 408 lagomorph intermediate hosts for taeniid larvae resulted in the occurrence of nine species: Taenia crassiceps (Zeder, 1800), T. martis (Zeder, 1803), T. pisiformis (Bloch, 1780), T. tenuicollis Rudolphi, 1819 , Multi- ceps serialis (Gervais, 1874), Hydatigera taeniaeformis (Batsch, 1786), Tetratirotaenia polyacantha (Leuckart, 1856), Cladotaenla gl obi fera (Batsch, 1786), C. circi Yamaguti, 1935. INTRODUCTION Faunistical and systematical evaluation, together with notes on ecological and veterinary aspects, of Taeniidae species infesting vertebrates in Hungary have been published by MURAI & TENORA (1973), NECHAY (1973), MURAI, SUGAR & HON ICH (1975), MURAI & SUGÁR (1976,1979). In this paper I report faunistical data of larval forms of taeniids found in rodents and lagomorphs and discuss the systematical status of these species. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 7062 rodents and lagomorphs have been captured and examined for helminths in the course of field work between 1965-1980 by staff of the Parasitological collection of the Zoological Department, Hungarian Natural History Museum: I. MATSKÁSI, F. MÉSZÁROS, Éva MURAI, Aranka STIRLING, I. SZABÓ, Etelka VAJDA, as well as by A. DEMETER, G. NECHAY, G. TOPÁL and L. ZOMBORI. Leporids were collected by L. SUGÁR and P. SZÉKI. The material from Ondatra zibethlcus was presented by B. EDELÉNYI and O. SEY. The authoress thanks all for their kind cooperation and assistance. Larval stages of taeniids were recovered from the following intermediate host species: 159 Cricetus crlcetus (Linnaeus, 1758), 298 Ondatra zibethicus (Linnaeus, 1758), 561 Clethrionomys glareolus (Schreber, 1780), 73 Pitymys subterraneus (DeSelys-Longchamps, 1836), 2610 Microtus arvalls (Pallas, 1779), 12 Microtus oeconomus (Pallas, 1776), 12 Microtus agrestis (Linnaeus, 1761), 1625 Apodemus flavicollis (Melchior. 1834), 202 Apodemus sylvaticus (Linnaeus. 1758), 2 59 Apodemus microps Kratochvil & Rosicky, 1952, 199 Apodemus agrárius (Pallas. 1771), 365 Mus musculus spicilegus Petényi, 1832, 14 Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769), 382 Lepus euro- paeus (Pallas, 1778), 26 Oryctolagus cuniculus (Linnaeus, 1758). Cysticerci were not found in the following rodents: 9 Spalax leucodon (Nordman, 1840), 2 Arvicola terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758), 158 Micromys mlnutus (Pallas, 1778), 12 Sciurus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758, 70 Citellus citellus (Linnaeus, 1766), 14 Glis glis (Linnaeus, 1766). For the infection rates of larval taeniids in the intermediate hosts, see Table 1. The Taeniidae larvae were fixed and preserved in 10% hot formalin. The rostellar hooks were studied in Berlese medium. The over 800 preparations of this study are deposited in the Zoological Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest.
