Dr. Murai Éva - Gubányi András szerk.: Parasitologia Hungarica 28. (Budapest, 1995)

Movsessian (1989) and Besenov et al. (1994) supported the opinion of Abuladze (1964) conscerning the independence and competence of superspecies taxons of the genera which have been assigned to Taeniinae Perrier 1897. Recently, Raush (1994) excluded the genus Insinaurotaenia Spassky, 1948 from the family Taeniidae, because of its uncertain taxonomical position. The above-mentioned controversy has arisen from the different morphological characteristics and developmental as well as life cycles of taeniids. At the same time, a detailed comparison of species, species groups, genera and subfamilies has been partially accomplished (see Murai et al. 1993 for a review). Because of the fixation and preparation methods applied in general, large-scale biochemical analyses of Taenia species are very limited. Thus, a complex morphological study of taeniid tapeworms is of topical interest. In the framework of the morphometries of taeniid tapeworms, the morphometries of the rostellar hooks, scoleces, strobilas, reproductive organs and eggs has been studied. First a multivariate analysis of distance measurements of the rostellar hooks is presented in this paper. Distance measurements of the rostellar hooks can be calculated in different ways (see Dollfus 1959 for a review). Up to now, only the total length of the hooks has been used (e.g. Joyeux 1923, Verster, 1969, Edwards 1981). In contrast, about a dozen length measurements and ratios are available for discrimination of the hooks (cf. Reinitz 1885, Deffke 1891, Stevenson 1904, Meggitt 1927). The geometrical morphometries of the rostellar hooks, based on a comparison of shape characteristics has been partially published (Gubányi 1996). MATERIALS AND METHODS The originally identified Taenia specimens included in the study were as follows: 1) Tacinonyxi: MHNG-94/18, MHNG-94/20(23/05) (Museum D'Histoire Naturelle Genève) from Panthera pardus, Nyangwé, Congo Beige; 2) T. brauni MHNG-1

23/81, MHNG-123/82 from Canis

familiáris, Congo Beige (experimental infection); 3) T. selousi MHNG-1

24/28, MHNG-1

24/29 from Felis silvestris (lybica), Republic of South Africa; 4) T. martis: HNHM-13048 (Hungarian Natural History Museum) from Martes foina, Sátor Mt. BEFAG, Hungary 20. 06. 1992; 5) T. hydatigena: MHNG-1

5/40, 15/41 from C. familiáris, East Africa, Ethiopia, Omo-Sagan, MHNG-123/25 from C. familiáris, Iceland, HNHM13202 from C. familiáris, Budapest, Sintértelep, Hungary, 08. 1972; 6) T. parenchymatosa: HNHM-4298 Capreolus pygargus, Siberia, Oëk Somon, 50 km north of Irkutsk, 05. 10. 1982; 7) T. kotlani: HNHM-64297/Y from Capra ibex sibirica, Mongolia, South Gobi Aimak, Sevrej Mts, 02. 09. 1975; 8) T. laticollis: MHNG-123/100 from Lynx canadensis, Canada, Alberta; 9) T. multiceps: MHNG-1

23/26, MHNG-1

23/27 from C familiáris, MHNG-1

24/38 from Ovis aries (experimental infection) Republic of South Africa, MHNG124/39 from C. familiáris (experimental infection) Republic of South Africa; 10) T, pisiformis: HNHM-6433/1

11 from C. familiáris male, Pécel, Hungary, 03. 05. 1975, HNHM-7508/1

12 from C. familiáris female, Pitvaros, Hungary 19. 02. 1977, HNHM-7040/1

13-114 from C. familiáris male, Budakeszi, Hungary, 11. 03. 1976, HNHM-7610/139fromC familiáris male, Nagytarcsa, Hungary, 29. 09. 1977, HNHM-7834/131 from C. familiáris, Budapest, University of Veterinary Science, Hungary, 08. 1928, HNHM-7835/132B from half-year-old