Durette-Desset, M-C.Malan, F.S.Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand2012-07-132012-07-1320122000Durette-Desset, MC, Boomker, J & Malan, FS 2000, 'Molineus cati n. sp. (Nematoda, Trichostrongylina, Molineoidea), a parasite of feral cats, Felis catus Linnaeus, 1758 in South Africa’. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 173-177.0330-2465http://hdl.handle.net/2263/19418The articles have been scanned in colour with a HP Scanjet 5590; 600dpi. Adobe Acrobat v.9 was used to OCR the text and also for the merging and conversion to the final presentation PDF-format.A new species of the genus Molineus Cameron, 1923 was recovered from feral cats, Felis catus Linnaeus, 1758, in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. Because of a caudal bursa with rays of the 2-1-2 type, but with the extremities of rays 4 nearer those of rays 3 than those of rays 5, the new species is closely related to seven Neotropical Molineus spp., four parasitic in Primates, two parasitic in Mustelidae and one a parasite of Procyonidae. Amongst these species, only Molineus barbaris Cameron, 1936, a parasite of Tayra barbara (Mustelidae) from Trinidad and Molineus vexillarius (Dunn, 1961), a parasite of Tamarinus nigricollis (Primates) from Peru have rays 4 longer than two-thirds the length of rays 3, like the new species. However, the new species is differentiated from the other two in that rays 9 arise at the level of the bifurcation of the dorsal ray and not after the division as is the case with M. barbaris and M. vexillarius.© ARC-Onderstepoort (original). © University of Pretoria. Dept of Library Services (digital).Veterinary medicineMolineus catiNematodaTrichostrongylinaMolineoideaFelis catusFelidaeSouth AfricaVeterinary medicine -- South AfricaVeterinary parasitology -- South AfricaCats -- DiseasesArticle