Dr. Éva Murai szerk.: Miscellanea Zoologica Hungarica 4. 1987 (Budapest, 1987)

Murai, É.: Triodontolepis torrentis sp. n. (Cestoda: Hymenolepididae) a parasite of Neomys fodiens (Insectivora)

The hosts were collected by trapping and were usually dissected on the day on capture, the cestodes were fixed in hot physiological saline solution of 5% formaldehyde. On some occasions the parasites were fixed by injecting the solution into the intestine, on other occasions the host specimens were deep-frozen and transported to the laboratory for subsequent dissection and preparation. The cestodes were stained with alun-carmine, hydrochloric acid carmine or Erlich's hematoxyline. (For deep-frozen specimens only the last staining method proved to be applicable. ) The rostellar hooks were examined and preserved in Berlese solution. The scoleces were measured before preparation, the strobili and their scoleces have been given identification codes (letter or fraction, see list of type preparations). Half of the preparations are whole mounts. DESCRIPTIONS AND FAUNISTICAL DATA OF TRIODONTOLEPIS SPECIES EXAMINED Triodontolepis torrentis sp. n. (Figs 1-5 and 22-28). Syn. : Hymenolepis montana Murai, 1984 (in MURAI and MÉSZÁROS, 19 84, in litteris name)_ H. neomydis Baer, 1931 (in MURAI, MÉSZÁROS and STOLLMAN, 1983, taxonomic error). Host: Neomys fodiens Pennant. - Localization: small intestine (in the second part). - Intensity: 2-20 specimens. - Extensity: 30%. 118 T. torrentis specimens from 29 N. fodiens in 12 localities were captured. Type material of Triodontolepis torrentis sp. n. HOLOTYPE: Slovakia, Nizke Tatry Mts., Partizánska Lupca, Lupcianska dolina, Na Tajchu, 11 September, 1980, leg. F. MÉSZÁROS, whole mount preparation, HNHM No: 1914/ 16827/1.* PARATYPES (all HNHM Nos): Slovakia, Nizke Tatry Mts, Lupcianska dolina, Na Tajchu, 11 September 1980, leg. MÉSZÁROS, 6 specimens, Nos: 1914/1682 7/2, 1914/16827/3, 1914/16827/4, 1914/16827/5, 1914/16827/6, 1914/16827/7; Nizke Tatry Mts, Partizánska Lupca, Oruzna dolina, 27 May, 1981, leg. MÉSZÁROS, 1 specimen, No: 2274/20102/1; Vel'ká Fatra Mts, Lubochnianska dolina, 14 August, 1980, leg. MURAI, 7 specimens, Nos: 2002/16312/1, 2002/16312/2, 2002/16312/3, 2002/16312/4, 2002/16312/5, 2002/16312/ 6a-b, in the Cestode Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, and 2002/16312/7, deposited in Natural History Museum, Geneva (NHMG); Vel'ka Fatra Mts, Harmanec, Bystrická dolina, 30 August, 1979, leg. DUDICH, 2 specimens, Nos: 1300/13268/J1-2, 1300/13268/F1-2; Bystrická dolina, 28 August, 1979, leg. DUDICH, 2 specimens, Nos: 1529/13226/A1-2, 1529/13226/B; Bystrická dolina, 28 August, 1979, leg. DUDICH, 5 specimens, Nos: 1530/13330/1, 1530/13225/2 (two whole mount preparations), 1530/13330/A, 1530/13330/B, 1530/1330/C (scoleces in Berlese solution); Bystrická dolina, 28 August, 1979, leg. DUDICH, 5 specimens, Nos: 1549/ 13225/la-b, 1549/13225/6, 1549/13225/14, 1549/13225/18, 1549/13225/19; Nizke Beskydy Mts, Becherov, 13 September, 1979, leg. DUDICH and MURAI, 5 whole mount preparations and 1 scolex, Nos: 1030/13470/3, 1030/13470/4, 1030/13470/5a-b, 1030/ 13470/7, 1030/13470/8; Cergov Mts, Lenartov, Vecnf potok, 10 November, 1981, leg. MÉSZÁROS and MURAI, 4 scoleces and 6 whole mount preparations, Nos: 2684/23047/A, 2684/23047/B, 2684/ The identification number of the cestode specimens are made up of three parts: - Serial number of parasites in the register-book of the Parasitological Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum; - in parentheses: serial number of host specimens examined; - individual labels of preparations (number or letters).