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

dc.contributor.authorFourie, L.J.
dc.contributor.authorBeaucournu, J-C.
dc.contributor.editorBoomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
dc.contributor.upauthorHorak, Ivan Gerard
dc.date.accessioned2012-01-19T06:59:59Z
dc.date.available2012-01-19T06:59:59Z
dc.date.created2011
dc.date.issued2003
dc.descriptionThe 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.abstractFleas 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.librarianmn2012en
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of the Free State. Foundation for Research Development (now National Research Foundation).en
dc.identifier.citationBeaucournu, 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.issn0030-2465
dc.identifier.other7102989086
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/17831
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPublished 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.subjectVeterinary medicineen
dc.subjectDemeilIonia grantien
dc.subjectElephant shrewsen
dc.subjectElephantulus edwardiien
dc.subjectElephantulus myurusen
dc.subjectFleasen
dc.subjectMacroscelidopsylla albertynien
dc.subject.lcshVeterinary medicine -- South Africa
dc.subject.lcshElephant shrewsen
dc.subject.lcshFleas as carriers of disease -- South Africaen
dc.titleFleas of elephant shrews (Mammalia, Macroscelididae) and a new host and locality record for Macroscelidopsylla albertyni De Meillon & Marcus, 1958 (Siphonaptera, Chimaeropsyllidae)en
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