Dr. Murai Éva szerk.: Parasitologia Hungarica 26. (Budapest, 1993)
Parasit, hung., 26:27-49,1993 © Hungarian Society of Parasitologists Examination of taeniid metacestodes from the Far East, with the description of Taenia kotlani sp. n. (Cestoda: Taeniidae) Éva MURAI, 1 András GUBÁNYI 1 and László SUGÁR 2 1 Zoological Department, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Baross u. 13, H-1088 Budapest, Hungary Pannon Agricultural University, Faculty of Animal Science, H-7401, P.O. Box 17, Kaposvár, Hungary (Received 28 September, 1993) Abstract: The metacestodes of Taenia kotlani sp. n. from Mongolian ibex (Capra ibexsibirica Pallas, 1776), and the metacestodes of Taenia parenchymatosa Pushmenkov, 1945 from the lungs of Siberian roe deer (Capreoluspygargus (Pallas, 1771)), which is a new intermediate host, are described. As comparative material adult and larval Taenia hydatigena Pallas, 1766 from Hungary were studied. For specific differentiation morphology of the Cysticercus, measurements of the scolex organelles, number of the rostellar hooks, the length of the large and small hooks, the length of the handle and the basis, and the length of the guard were applied. Close relationship may be found between the larval form of the new species and Cysticercus dromedarii described by Pellegrini (1945) whose adult form may be T. crocutae Mettrick et BeverlyBurton, 1961 (Verster 1969). The scolex morphology and the size and shape of T. hyaenae Baer, 1926 parasitizing hyaenas, come also near to the new species. The possible adult stage of T. kotlani sp. n. is that specimen which was recovered from a feral dog in Nepal by Sawada and Shogaki ( 1975) and misidentified as T. hydatigena. Key words: Taxonomy, morphology, Taenia kotlani sp. n., T. hydatigena, T. parenchymatosa, Cestoda, Taeniidae, Cysticercus, scolex, rostellar hooks, discriminant analysis, Capra ibex sibirica, Capreolus pygargus, Capreolus capreolus, Cervus elaphus, Dama dama, Ovis musimon, Sus scrofa, Canis familiáris, Canis lupus, Mongolia, Siberia, Hungary INTRODUCTION In the family Taeniidae, 9 genera were established by Wardle and McLeod (1952), 8 by Yamaguti (1959), 5 by Joyeux and Baer (1961), and 11 by Abuladze (1964) on the basis of the structure of the metacestodes (Cysticercus, coenurus, armatetratiridium,
