Moravec František, Taraschewski Horst, Weyl Olaf L F
Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
Syst Parasitol. 2013 Jul;85(3):263-9. doi: 10.1007/s11230-013-9421-z. Epub 2013 Jun 22.
The little-known nematode species Heliconema africanum (Linstow, 1899) n. comb. (Physalopteridae) is redescribed based on light and scanning electron microscopical examinations of specimens collected from the stomach of the African longfin eel Anguilla mossambica (Peters) in the Nahoon River, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. This species, previously misidentified as Heliconema longissimum (Ortlepp, 1922), is a common parasite of eels in South Africa. The systematic status of H. longissimum, a species originally described from unidentified Australian snakes, is unclear and probably several morphologically closely related species have been included under this name.
基于对从南非东开普省纳洪河的非洲长鳍鳗鲡（Anguilla mossambica Peters）胃中采集的标本进行的光学显微镜和扫描电子显微镜检查，对鲜为人知的线虫物种非洲螺旋线虫（Heliconema africanum (Linstow, 1899) n. comb.，泡翼科）进行了重新描述。该物种此前被误鉴定为长螺旋线虫（Heliconema longissimum (Ortlepp, 1922)），是南非鳗鱼的常见寄生虫。长螺旋线虫最初是从未知的澳大利亚蛇类中描述的，其系统地位尚不清楚，可能有几个形态上密切相关的物种被归入了这个名称之下。
