Fleas of elephant shrews (Mammalia, Macroscelididae) and a new host and locality record for Macroscelidopsylla albertyni De Meillon & Marcus, 1958 (Siphonaptera, Chimaeropsyllidae)

Fourie, L.J.; Beaucournu, J-C.; Horak, Ivan Gerard

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dc.contributor.author	Fourie, L.J.
dc.contributor.author	Beaucournu, J-C.
dc.contributor.editor	Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
dc.contributor.upauthor	Horak, Ivan Gerard
dc.date.accessioned	2012-01-19T06:59:59Z
dc.date.available	2012-01-19T06:59:59Z
dc.date.created	2011
dc.date.issued	2003
dc.description	The articles have been scanned with a HP Scanjet 8300; 600dpi, saved in TIFF format. Adobe Acrobat v.9 was used to OCR the text and also for the merging and conversion to the final presentation PDF-format.	en
dc.description.abstract	Fleas collected from the elephant shrews Elephantulus edwardii (A. Smith, 1839) in the Western Cape Province, Elephantulus myurus Thomas & Schwann, 1906 in Free State Province, and an Elephantulus of undetermined species in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa are recorded in this paper. Five flea species were recovered of which Demeillonia granti (Rothschild, 1904) was the most numerous and prevalent. It was followed by Macroscelidopsylla albertyni De Meillon & Marcus, 1958, collected only from E. edwardii. Both this elephant shrew and the locality are new records for M. albertyni. Chiastopsylla octavii (Rothschild, 1904), Listropsylla agrippinae (Rothschild, 1904), and a female flea of the Ctenocephalides felis group were accidental infestations. The sex ratio of D. granti was 0.86 on both male and female elephant shrews, while that of M. albertyni on E. edwardii was 0.83.	en
dc.description.librarian	mn2012	en
dc.description.sponsorship	University of the Free State. Foundation for Research Development (now National Research Foundation).	en
dc.identifier.citation	Beaucournu, J-C, Horak, IG & Fourie, LJ 2003, 'Fleas of elephant shrews (Mammalia, Macroscelididae) and a new host and locality record for Macroscelidopsylla albertyni De Meillon & Marcus, 1958 (Siphonaptera, Chimaeropsyllidae)'. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 251-253.	en
dc.identifier.issn	0030-2465
dc.identifier.other	7102989086
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/17831
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria.	en
dc.rights	© ARC-Onderstepoort and Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria (original). © University of Pretoria. Dept of Library Services (digital).	en
dc.subject	Veterinary medicine	en
dc.subject	DemeilIonia granti	en
dc.subject	Elephant shrews	en
dc.subject	Elephantulus edwardii	en
dc.subject	Elephantulus myurus	en
dc.subject	Fleas	en
dc.subject	Macroscelidopsylla albertyni	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Veterinary medicine -- South Africa
dc.subject.lcsh	Elephant shrews	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Fleas as carriers of disease -- South Africa	en
dc.title	Fleas of elephant shrews (Mammalia, Macroscelididae) and a new host and locality record for Macroscelidopsylla albertyni De Meillon & Marcus, 1958 (Siphonaptera, Chimaeropsyllidae)	en
dc.type	Article	en