The Species of Subulura Molin in Primates

Abstract

The genus Subulura was established in 1860 by Molin for a nematode from Scops brasiliannus and at the present day includes some forty species, mostly in birds. Five species have been reported from primates. Three of these are little known and are still only provisionally retained within this genus. These are S. sarasinorum (from Loris), S. otolicni (from Galago) and S. perarmata (from Tarsius). They are discussed below. The remaining species S. distans (from Cercopithecidæ) and S. jacchi (from Cebidæ and Hapalidæ) are of sufficient importance to merit fuller consideration. The first-mentioned is only incompletely known although the second has been recently re-described by Barreto (1919). During an expedition in 1928 to the Lesser Antilles, I was able to collect a large number of specimens of Subulura from the African Monkeys in St. Kitts. These, together with specimens of S. distans and S. jacchi in the collections of the Department of Helminthology of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, provided the material on which this paper is based.

Gastrointestinal Parasites of Indigenous and Introduced Primate Species of Rubondo Island National Park, Tanzania

“…Nine species of Subulura have been reported in primates, and Subulura distans has been reported in Cercopithecus spp. (Cameron 1930;Yamashita 1963). However, we cannot exclude the possibility that both taxa represent spurious parasites passed through the digestive tract of Rubondo chimpanzees (Zajac and Conboy 2006), because chimpanzees occasionally hunt and eat vervets on Rubondo (Petrželková pers.…”

The St. Kitts Vervet (Cercopithecus aethiops)

“…Vervet's intestinal parasite Subulura distans compared with control samples for West Africa showed differences in the eso phageal anatomy, which might have resulted from genetic changes during three centuries of isolation or, on the other hand, because the present day African parasite might differ from its ancestors [6], A high frequency of dental abnormalities was found in St. Kitts vervets as compared to skulls from West Africa, and was attributed to diets and eating habits. Detailed analysis of both skull and dental characteristics of the St. Kitts monkey to determine if it qualified as a subspecies of C. aethiops (1,2) revealed a number of differences when compared to controls.…”

Habitat fragmentation and vegetation structure impact gastrointestinal parasites of small mammalian hosts in Madagascar

“…The supernatant was sieved with tap water into a new tube, where parasite stages were sedimented by centrifugation at 450×g for 5 min. The sediment was transferred into a counting chamber and parasite eggs, oocysts, and larvae were microscopically classified into morphotypes, based on different references for primate (Cameron, 1930;Chabaud et al, 1965;Rosario Robles et al, 2010;Hugot et al, 1995;Hugot & del Robles, 2011;Irwin & Raharison, 2009;Kalousová et al, 2014;Little, 1966;Radespiel et al, 2015;Raharivololona, 2006Raharivololona, , 2009 as well as rodent parasites (Baker, 2006(Baker, , 2008Bowman et al, 2004;Dewi et al, 2018;Khalil et al, 2014;Petrzelkova et al, 2006;Sambon, 1924;Smales et al, 2009;Thomas, 1924).…”