Helminth parasites of Natal long-fingered bats, Miniopterus natalensis (Chiroptera : Miniopteridae), in South Africa
dc.contributor.author | Junker, Kerstin | |
dc.contributor.author | Bain, Odile | |
dc.contributor.author | Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik | |
dc.contributor.email | joop.boomker@up.ac.za | en |
dc.coverage.spatial | Africa | en |
dc.coverage.spatial | South Africa | en |
dc.coverage.spatial | KwaZulu-Natal, Province of | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-04-19T08:05:42Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-04-19T08:05:42Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-09 | |
dc.description.abstract | The helminth community infecting Miniopterus natalensis was studied at two localities, the De Hoop Nature Reserve (DHNR) (n = 57), Western Cape Province and Pretoria (n = 12), Gauteng Province, South Africa. Hosts from the DHNR had formed part of an earlier, unrelated study and were all pregnant females. A single hymenolepidid cestode species, the nematodes Molinostrongylus ornatus and Litomosa chiropterorum together with nematodes of the subfamily Capillariinae were present at both study sites, while a single digenean, Allassogonoporus sp., was only found in hosts from the DHNR. The prevalence of helminth infections was high at both localities, 68.4 % in the DHNR and 77.7 % in Pretoria, whereas the mean intensity of infection was low at the DHNR (3.76 ± 3.15), but higher in Pretoria (10.4 ± 9.9). Molinostrongylus ornatus and, to a lesser extent L. chiropterorum, were the main contributors to the higher intensities in Pretoria. The species richness ranged from 0 to 4 at both localities. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Pretoria | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Junker, K, Bain, O & Boomker, J 2008, ‘Helminth parasites of Natal long-fingered bats, Miniopterus natalensis (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae), in South Africa’, Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 75, no. 3, pp. 261–265. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_opvet.html] | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0030-2465 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/9703 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Agricultural Research Council, ARC-OVI and the University of Pretoria | en |
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dc.rights | Agricultural Research Council, ARC-OVI and the University of Pretoria | en |
dc.subject | Cestoda | en |
dc.subject | Chiroptera | en |
dc.subject | Digenea | en |
dc.subject | Nematoda | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Bats -- South Africa | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Helminths | en |
dc.title | Helminth parasites of Natal long-fingered bats, Miniopterus natalensis (Chiroptera : Miniopteridae), in South Africa | en |
dc.type | Article | en |