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Distributional Notes On Parasitic Mites, William F. Rapp Jr.

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Although much has been written on the systematics of mites little, to date, has been published regarding their distribution. Strandtman and Wharton (1958) have given distributional data on a large area basis i.e. United States, Mexico, etc., but have given only little specific distribution. Unfortunately much of our knowledge relative to mite distribution is limited to a knowledge of type localities. In the case of parasitic mites one cannot assume that the distribution of the parasite is the same as the host. Unfortunately at this time, we do not know what factors limit the distribution of parasitic mites.

The following …

Translation Of Levchenko, N. G. 1962. Infection By Sarcosporidia (Genus Sarcocystis) In Farm Animals Of Southeast Kazakhstan [=Porazhenie Sarkosporidiyami (Roda Sarcocystis) Sel'skokhozyaistvennykh Zhivotnykh Yugo-Vostoka Kazakhstana]. In Boev, S. N. Et Al., Editors. Parasites Of Farm Animals In Kazakhstan, I. [= Parazity Sel'skhokozyaistvennykh Zhivotnykh Kazakhstana, I]. Izdat. Akademie Nauk Kazakh Ssr, Alma-Ata, Kazakh Ssr, Pp. 56-62, A. V. Levit, Frederick K. Plous Jr.

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Conclusions

Farm animals in southeast Kazakhstan are widely infected with sarcosporidia: 96.9% of the sheep, 88% of the cattle, 70% of the camels, and 40% of the swine.

The muscles most often and most heavily infected are: in sheep, the heart, diaphragm, and median buttock muscle; in cattle, the heart and esophagus; in camels, the esophagus, diaphragm, and median buttock muscle; in swine, the heart, diaphragm, and median buttock.

The most objective data on infection of animals can be obtained by studying a minimum of 3 or 4 muscles of different muscular systems simultaneously.

Heavy infection of muscles by sarcosporidia, …

Notes On The Collared Pika, Ochotona Collaris (Nelson), In Alaska, Robert L. Rausch

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Maps showing the geographic range of the collared pika, Ochotona collaris (Nelson), have been published recently by Hall (1951) and by Hall and Kelson (1959). According to these, this mammal occurs in the mountains between the Tanana and Yukon Rivers, and in the Alaska Range as far west as Mt. McKinley. A specimen from the summit of the Chugach Mountains (Baker, 1951) was not included on the aforementioned maps. Osgood (1904) referred to two specimens collected by C. L. McKay in the Chogmit Mountains, east of Lake Clark at the base of the Alaska Peninsula, and also mentioned a sight …

Digenetic Trematodes Of Marine Fishes Of Puerto Rico, Ather H. Siddiqi, Raymond M. Cable

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Preface

This monograph reports the major part of an investigation begun by Raymond M. Cable in 1951, when he spent one year at the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagiiez, Puerto Rico, collecting and studying larval trematodes and the helminth parasites of shore birds and marine fishes. The work there was done under the auspices set forth in the Preface to Part 4, Volume 16, of this series; this part was facilitated especially by Virgilio Biaggi, N. T. Mattox, and Donald Erdman, who rendered invaluable assistance in the collection and identification of fishes. One trip …

Translation Of Karapetyan, A. E. 1960. A Method Of Cultivation Of Lamblia. Cytology 2: 379-384. Transliteration: Metodika Kul'tivirovaniya Iamblii. Tsitologiya 2: 379-384, A. E. Karapetyan, Virginia Ivens

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Translation number 6, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States (6 pages)

Translation of Karapetyan, A. E. 1960. A method of cultivation of Lamblia. Cytology 2: 379-384. Transliteration: Metodika kul'tivirovaniya Iamblii. Tsitologiya 2: 379-384

Reported November 25, 1959, at the Leningrad Parasitological Society Conference, Leningrad, USSR

Translated from Russian to English by Virginia Ivens, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States, February 6, 1961 (notated: VI/s)

Malaysian Parasites Xxxv-Xlix, W. W. Macdonald

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This is the third Study of the series from this Institute on the external and internal parasites and the biting insects of the Malaysian region. The earlier two volumes were planned and edited by Dr. J.R. Audy, and on his departure from Malaya in the middle of 1959 Mr. W. W. Macdonald continued the work which had been begun and collated and edited the papers in this present Study.

In the two previous volumes (Study No. 26, 1954 and No. 28, 1957) the emphasis was on the taxonomy of Trombiculid mites. In the present volume the emphasis has changed, and …

Studies On The Helminth Fauna Of Alaska. Xxxvil. Description Of Schizorchis Caballeroi N. Sp. (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae), With Notes On Other Parasites Of Ochotona, Robert L. Rausch

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Schizorchis caballeroi n. sp. has been described from the collared pika, Ochotona collaris (Nelson), from Alaska, and has been distinguished morphologically from its congeners, S. ochotonae Hansen, 1948, and S. altaica Gvozdev, 1951.

Nine species of helminths have been described 10 dale from North American pikas, O. collaris and O. princeps (Richardson). These mammals are markedly allopatric and do not share any species of helminth. Nematodes of two genera, Eugenuris Shults and Labiostomum Akhtar, 1941, occur in O. collaris as weIl as in palearctic species of Ochotona. This, along with other pertinent information, is taken to suggest that O. …

Trichinosis In The Arctic, Robert L. Rausch

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Trichinella spiralis (Owen, 1835) is a common parasite of mammals in the Arctic. High rates of infection have been recorded in terrestrial carnivores (particularly Canidae, Ursidae, and Mustelidae), but representatives of several other groups, including marine mammals, have been found infected. From existing information, it appears that the natural cycles have at least three ecologicaIIy distinct patterns, described in this note.

Studies On The Helminth Fauna Of Alaska. Xxxvi. Parasites Of The Wolverine, Gulo Gulo L., With Observations On The Biology Of Taenia Twitchelli Schwartz, 1924, Robert L. Rausch

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Natural biotic relationships already had been severely disrupted in the United States by the time significant interest had developed in faunistic helminthology. Some mammalian species, particularly the larger carnivores, had been extirpated or were represented only by scattered individuals in the few remaining wilderness areas. Thus, it is not remarkable that the helminths of such species as the wolverine, Gulo gulo Linnaeus, have been little studied. Fortunately, however, much of arctic and subarctic North America has endured in its primitive state, and here it is still possible to undertake basic biological studies under undisturbed conditions.

Studies On The Helminth Fauna Of Alaska. Xxxiv. The Parasites Of Wolves, Canis Lupus L., Robert L. Rausch, Francis Williamson

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It is generally recognized that canine animals comprise an important reservoir of parasites and diseases transmissible to man. These animals, including the domestic dog, have unusual economic importance in arctic and subarctic North America, particularly for the Eskimos and Indians living in more remote regions. These aboriginal peoples continually have close association with canine animals and would appear to be quite vulnerable to infection from this source. That this is true is already evident, although data on morbidity from animal-borne diseases are far from complete. At the present time, at least in Alaska, these people have little ability to lessen …

Studies On The Helminth Fauna Of Alaska. Xxxv. On The Identity Of Certain Cestodes (Taeniidae) From Foxes, Robert L. Rausch

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Some species of the genus Taenia Linnaeus, 1758, are morphologically so similar in the adult stage that their separation is very difficult. Complicating this problem is the questionable validity of certain of these species which have been insufficiently characterized. There are two species, however, the adults of which possess well defined morphological difference but which have been repeatedly confused despite their having been adequately described by early investigators. These cestodes, Taenia crassiceps (Zeder, 1800) and T. polyacantha Leuckart, 1856, have for many years been recognized solely by their larval characteristics under the misconception that the adults were indistinguishable.

Translation Of Polyanskii, Yu. I. And E. M. Kheisin. 1959. Some Observations On The Development Of Babesiella Bovis In The Tick Vector. Works Of The Karelia Branch Of The Academy Of Sciences Ussr 14: 5-13. Transliteration: Nekotorye Nablyudeniya Nad Razvitiem Babesiella Bovis V Kleshche-Perenoschike. Trudy Karel'skogo Fiiiala Akademie Nauk Sssr. Vypusk 14: 5-13, Yu. I. Polyanskii, E. M. Kheisin, Virginia Ivens

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Translation number 8, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States, February 14, 1962 (8 pages)

Translation of Polyanskii, Yu. I. and E. M. Kheisin. 1959. Some observations on the development of Babesiella bovis in the tick vector. Works of the Karelia Branch of the Academy of Sciences USSR 14: 5-13. Transliteration: Nekotorye nablyudeniya nad razvitiem Babesiella bovis v kleshche-perenoschike. Trudy Karel'skogo fiIiala Akademie Nauk SSSR. Vypusk 14: 5-13

Translation from Russian to English by Virginia Ivens, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States (notated VI/s)

Biometric Comparisons Between North American And European Mammals. I. A Comparison Between Alaskan And Fennoscandian Wolverine (Gulo Gulo Linnaeus), Björn Kurtén, Robert L. Rausch

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A comparison between the Alaskan and Fennoscandian wolverine (Gulo gulo Linnaeus).

Biometric Comparisons Between North American And European Mammals. Ii. A Comparison Between The Northern Lynxes Of Fennoscandia And Alaska, Björn Kurtén, Robert L. Rausch

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A comparison between the northern lynxes, (Felis (Lynx) spp.), of Fennoscandia and Alaska.

Notes On The Prevalence Of Hydatid Disease In Alaskan Moose, Robert L. Rausch

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In conjunction with current moose-management studies in south-central Alaska; 124 pairs of lungs of moose (Alces alces) have been collected and examined for the presence of hydatid cysts, the larval stage of the cestode, Echinococcus granulosus. The lungs were collected in the Cook Inlet region between January 1, 1956 and January 1, 1958, mostly from animals accidentally killed by trains or cars.

The presence or absence of the tapeworm cyst was determined by visual inspection, palpation, and finally by sectioning the lungs into slices approximately % in. thick. Hydatid larvae do not always localize in the lungs …

The Occurrence And Distribution Of Birds On Middleton Island, Alaska, Robert L. Rausch

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A survey of the birds of Middleton Island was made in June 1956. Forty-five species of birds were recorded. Of these, at least 16 species were breeding, four other species were possibly breeding, and 2.5 species were regarded as transients. The distribution of the breeding birds was correlated with six major ecological formations. Five of the latter were based on vegetational characteristics, while the rocky cliffs comprised the sixth.

The avian fauna of Middleton Island consists mainly of species found in the Prince William Sound region, to the north. An important exception was the Lapland Longspur, which previously has not …

Some Observations On Rabies In Alaska, With Special Reference To Wild Canidae, Robert L. Rausch

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Includes a summary of available information on outbreaks of rabies recorded in canine animals in Alaska over a 9-year period (1949-57), and to discuss some problems relating to the natural history of rabies in high boreal regions.

Translated From Russian By Virginia Ivens. Svanbaev, S. K. 1958. The Coccidial Fauna Of Wild Ungulates Of Kazakhstan. Works Of The Institute Of Zoology Academy Of Sciences, Kazakh Ssr 9: 187-197. Transliteration: Fauna Koktsidi! Dikikh Kopyteykh Zhivoteykh Kazakhstana. Trudy Instituta Zoologii Akademie Nauk Kazakh Ssr 9: 187-197, S. K. Svanbaev, Virginia Ivens

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Translation number 9, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States, 1960 or 1961

Translation of Svanbaev, S. K. 1958. The coccidial fauna of wild ungulates of Kazakhstan. Works of the Institute of Zoology Academy of Sciences, Kazakh SSR 9: 187-197. Transliteration: Fauna koktsidii dikikh kopyteykh zhivoteykh Kazakhstana. Trudy Instituta Zoologii Akademie Nauk Kazakh SSR 9: 187-197

Translated from Russian to English by Virginia Ivens, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States

A New Genus Of Monogenetic Trematode (Family Diclidophoridae) From A New Zealand Fish, Harold W. Manter, Gail Walling

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These monogeneans were collected by Harold W. Manter in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1951 from the gills of Seriolella brama (Günther), the warehou (Family Nomeidae). A study of the three specimens collected indicates they belong to a new genus of the family Diclidophoridae, subfamily Cyclocotylinae.

Translation By Virginia Ivens Of Coccidia Of Rodents Of Central Kazakhstan In Works Of The Institute Of Zoology, Academy Of Sciences, Kazakh Ssr (1958) 9: 183-186, S. K. Svanbaev, Virginia Ivens

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Translation number 3, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

Translated citation: Svanbaev, S. K. Coccidia of rodents of central Kazakhstan in Works of the Institute of Zoology, Academy of Sciences, Kazakh SSR (1958) 9: 183-186

Transliterated citation: Svanbaev, S. K. K poznaniyu fauny koktsidii gryzunov tsentral'nogo Kazakhstana. Trudy Instituta Zoologii, Akademie Nauk Kazakh SSR (1958) tom IX: 183-186

Translation from Russian to English by Virginia Ivens (noted as VI:j), University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States, March 5, 1960 (4 pages)

Distribution And Specificity Of Helminths In Microtine Rodents: Evolutionary Implications, Robert L. Rausch

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The taxonomic status of anoplocephaline cestodes of microtine rodents has been reviewed. Of the genus Andrya Railliet, 1883, five species are considered valid: A. macrocephala Douthitt, 1915; A. primordialis Douthitt, 1915; A. montana Kirshenblat, 1941 ; A. arctica Rausch, 1952; A. bairdi Schad, 1954. Of the genus Paranoplocephala Luehe, 1910, six species are regarded as valid: P. omphalodes (Hermann, 1783); P. blanchardi (Moniez, 1891); P. infrequens (Douthitt, 1915); P. variabilis (Douthitt, 1915); P. lemmi Rausch, 1952; P. neofibrinus Rausch, 1952. Andrya caucasica Kirshenblat, 1938, and A. bialowizensis Soltys, 1949, are regarded as synonyms of A. macrocephala. Paranoplocephala brevis Kirshenblat, 1938, …

The Occurrence Of Echinococcus Multilocularis Leuckart, 1863, In Japan, Robert L. Rausch, Jiro Yamashita

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Since 1937, when alveolar hydatid disease was first recognized on the Japanese island of Rebun, 25 cases have been investigated clinically. About one percent of the population of the island is believed to be infected. (Yamashita et al., 1955). Five cases also have been reported from other islands, some of these involving emigrants from Rebun (Inukai et al., 1955; Yamashita, 1956).

Studies On The Helminth Fauna Of Alaska. Xxxi. Observations On The Propagation Of The Larval Echinococcus Multilocularis Leuckart, 1863, In Vitro, Robert L. Rausch, Virginia Jentoft

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Larval reproduction in Echinococcus multilocularis Leuckart, 1863, takes place through the proliferation of exogenous secondary vesicles (Rausch, 1954). In some species of host this process appears to be continual, extending over a long period of time with little tendency for self-limitation. Consequently, the growth characteristics of this larval cestode are such that it would seem well suited to culture in vitro.

Case Of Collecting Tick Amblyomma Lepidum Dönitz, 1909, In Azerbaijan, M. V. Pospelova-Shtrom, N. S. Abusalimov

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First paragraph:

On 18 May 1954, (a specimen of) Burhinus oedicnemus (L.) was killed in the Lenkoransky region of Azerbaijan S.S.R.; on its head a male Amblyomma lepidum Dönitz, 1909, was found. Morphological characters of this tick, size and shape of body, characteristic light and dark ornamentation of dorsal shield, punctation, shape, and two colors of festoons, size and shape of cervical and lateral grooves, hypostome, peritreme, projection on coxae, and spherical orbited eyes correspond to those in the description of A. lepidum, given in Robinson monograph. Only on four anterior festoons a small light spot is found (in …

The Ticks Or Ixodides Of The U.S.S.R.: A Review Of The Literature, George Anastos

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No abstract provided.

Translation By Virginia Ivens Of Coccidia Of Sheep And Goats Of Western Kazakhstan By S. K. Svanbaev In Works Of The Institute Of Zoology, Academy Of Sciences, Kazakh Ssr 7 (1957): 252-257, S. K. Svanbaev, Virginia Ivens

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Translation number 1, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States

Translation of Coccidia of sheep and goats of western Kazakhstan by S. K. Svanbaev, in Works of the Institute of Zoology, Academy of Sciences, Kazakh SSR (1957) 7: 252-257

Transliteration: K voprosu o faune i morfologii koktsidii ovets i koz zapadnogo Kazakhstana. Trudy Instituta Zoologii Akademie Nauk Kazakh SSR (1957) tom VII (1957): 252-257

Translated from Russian to English by Virginia Ivens, University of Illinois, March 21, 1960 (11 pages)

Key To The Genus Ornithodorus (Of Russia) (After Pavlovsky, 1955), I. G. Galuzo

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English translation from Russian of pp. 83-85 of Galuzo (1957) Argasid ticks and their epizootological significance. Alma-Ata (Acad. Sci. Kazakh SSR).

Females and Males

Ornithodoros papillipes (Birula, 1895)

O. verrucosus (Sas, Fen. 1934)

O. tartakovskyi (Olenev, 1931)

O. nereensis (Pavlovsky, 1941)

O. alactagalis (Issaakjan, 1936)

O. canestrini (Birula, 1895)

O. lahorensis (Neumann, 1908)

Studies On The Helminth Fauna Of Alaska. Xxv. The Ecology And Public Health Significance Of Echinococcus Sibiricensis Rausch & Schiller, 1954, On St. Lawrence Island, Robert L. Rausch, Everett L. Schiller

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The occurrence of a species of Echinococcus (Rudolphi, 1801) on St Lawrence Island was noted by the writers in early 1950. Recognition of its unusual host relationships led to an investigation of the ecology of this cestode, E. sibiricensis Rausch & Schiller, 1954. It is the purpose of this paper to report the results of this work, with emphasis on alveolar hydatid disease in man, of which this cestode is the etiologic agent.

Observations On Shipleya Inermis Fuhrmann, 1908 (Cestoda: Acoleidae), Marietta Voge, Robert L. Rausch

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Shipleya inermis, described by Fuhrmann (1908) and redescribed by Baer (1940), is known from only few specimens. The first and only North American record of this species was published by Webster (1951), who reported the finding of two specimens in dowitchers. Examination of a large number of cestodes from dowitchers collected by Rausch, and of cestodes from the Helminthological Collection of the United States National Museum yielded specimens which are without doubt Shipleya inermis. However, some of our observations which are reported here do not agree with Baer's description. In particular, we are unable to agree with Baer …

Studies On The Helminth Fauna Of Alaska. Xxvii. The Occurrence Of Larvae Of Trichinella Spiralis In Alaskan Mammals, Robert L. Rausch, B. B. Babero, Virginia R. Rausch, Everett L. Schiller

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In 1948 much interest in trichinosis in arctic regions was aroused, particularly by the findings of Thorborg et al. (1948), who investigated serious outbreaks occurring among the Eskimo of West Greenland during 1947. Consequently, with the founding of the Arctic Health Research Center in the autumn of 1948, a study of trichinosis in Alaska was the first project to be initiated by the Zoonotic Disease Section (formerly Animal-borne Disease Section) of this Center.

Field work was begun in January, 1949, and a preliminary note on trichinosis in Alaskan mammals was published by Brandly and Rausch (1950). The subject of trichinosis …