TABLE 2 in The gastrointestinal helminths of Rattus niobe (Rodentia: Muridae) with descriptions of two new genera and three new species (Nematoda) from Papua New Guinea and Papua Indonesia

TABLE 2. Heminths from the digestive tract of 34 Rattus niobe collected from Papua New Guinea and Papua, Indonesia. TaxonSite in HostPrevalence %IntensityAcanthocephalaMoniliformidaMoniliformis moniliformis Travassos, 1915small intestine5.91–3Cestodastomach, small intestine caecum44.1not determinedNematodaAscarididaAscarididaeToxocara mackerrasae (Sprent, 1957)stomach2.91HeterakidaeHeterakis sp. Smales, in presscaecum41.21–8Subul Subulura andersoni (Cobbold, 1876)caecum2.93Juvenile formscaecum17.61–3EnoplidaTrichuridaeEucoleus sp.small intestine17.61–4Trichuris muris (Schrank, 1788)caecum5.91–3OxyuridaOxyuridaeSyphacia (Syphacia) niobe n. sp.caecum79.41–220Syphacia sp.caecum2.92SpiruridaSpiruridaeProtospirura kaindiensis Smales, 2001stomach14.71–7P. muricola Gedoelst, 1916stomach41.21–10StrongylidaStrongylinaChabertiidaeCyclodontostomun purvisi Adams, 1933caecum5.91TrichostrongylinaHeligmonellidaeNugininema titokis n. gen., n. sp.small intestine5.91–9Rodentanema aenigma n. gen., n. spsmall intestine5.94Nippostrongylinae species 1small intestine11.71–11Nippostrongylinae species 2small intestine11.72–4heligmonellidsmall intestine2.91