Dr. Murai Éva szerk.: Parasitologia Hungarica 14. (Budapest, 1982)
Eimeria cagandzeeri sp. n. and Eimeri sp. (Coccidia) from the Mongolian gazelle (Procapra gutturosa Gmelin, 1760) Dr. László SUGÁR Agricultural College, Kaposvár, Hungary " Eimeria cagandzeeri sp. n. and Eimeria sp. (Coccidia) from the Mongolian gazelle (Procapra gutturosa Gmelin, 1760) in Mongolia"- Sugár, L.- Parasit, hung. 14: 57-59,1981- 82. ABSTRACT. New intestinal coccidia from the Mongolian gazelle (Procapra cutturosa), captured in 1979 in the Gobi semi-desert, are described. Four of the five one-year old animals were infected with coccidia. Nothing is known of the intestinal coccidia of the Mongolian gazelle, no mention is made in either PELLÉRDY's monograph (1974) or in other sources. It was assumed, however, that the Mongolian gazelle also harboured intestinal coccidia just like most of the wild ruminants . Investigations carried out in 1979 fulfilled the expectations. MATERIALS AND METHODS The author and his co-workers captured Mongolian gazelle in June-July 1978 and April-May 1979 in the Gobi semi-desert in order to transfer the animals to elsewhere (Sugár, 1979), Sixteen adult and subadult (including one-year old) and thirty five suckling gazelle were captured in 1978. Of these, five adults and two juveniles that died upon capture were dissected. Gut contents of the five adult-subadult animals were preserved in 1% potassium bichromate solution . Subsequent laboratory examination revealed the presence of neither coccidia nor helminth eggs. Presumably the potassium bichromate had disintegrated these . Eighteen adult-subadult gazelle were captured in 1979. The droppings of five one-year old gazelle were conserved, as it was concluded from our previous experience that intestinal coccidia could be found only in one-year old or younger specimens of wild ruminants. This time the samples were conserved in 8% formaldehyde solution. Subsequent examination two weeks later in Budapest showed that four out of the five samples contained coccidia, one even two species. On the basis on the gut content samples we are in a position to give a) a detailed description of a species believed to be new to science; the species is proposed to be named Eimeria cagandzeeri sp.n. after the Mongolian name of the host (cagan dzeer = white gazelle) and b) an incomplete description of another species of coccidia undoubtedly new to science, which is based on measurements of the sporocyst only, since by the time of the microscopical examination the wall of the oocyst had already been captured.
