Schuster R K, Mehmood N, Varcasia A, Veneziano V
Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, PO Box 597, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Department of Zoology, University of Sargodha, University Road, 40100 Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan.
Helminthologia. 2023 Sep 22;60(2):166-174. doi: 10.2478/helm-2023-0016. eCollection 2023 Jun.
A study of the parasite fauna of feral cats in Dubai revealed the presence of two species, (Diamare, 1893) and (Baer, 1924). While the wide distribution of includes countries of the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe, was previously reported from felid hosts from southern Africa and has not been found in other cat parasite surveys in the Middle East, except from Dubai. The availability of historical references, however, raised doubts about the correctness of the allocation of the small sp. from Dubai cats to and for this reason, a reexamination of stored material in the parasite collection of the Central Veterinary Research Laboratory in Dubai was carried out. A total of 40 specimens of the small sp. with a strobila length between 30 and 60 mm and consisting of 52 to 85 segments obtained from domestic cats and formerly allocated to were studied. In complete specimens, 10 - 13 rows of rostellar hooks were counted. Mature segments were wider than long, round testes were concentrated posterior to coiled vasa deferentia and did not reach the anterior rim of the proglottids. Narrow cirri reached up to 520 μm in length. Gravid segments were longer than wide and egg capsules were restricted to the space between longitudinal excretory vessels. The examination revealed that the morphology of these cestodes matched the main characteristics of . However, the little known cestode, (Setti, 1895), that had been described from imported from Eritrea 29 years earlier and was declared a met the same main morphological criteria. In this paper, the status of as a valid species was resurrected and was declared a junior synonym.
一项对迪拜野猫寄生虫群落的研究发现了两种寄生虫，即（迪亚马尔，1893年）和（贝尔，1924年）。虽然的分布广泛，涵盖中东、非洲、亚洲和欧洲国家，但此前仅在南非的猫科宿主中被报道过，在中东地区的其他猫寄生虫调查中均未发现，除了迪拜。然而，历史参考文献的存在让人对将来自迪拜猫的小型种归为的正确性产生怀疑，因此，对迪拜中央兽医研究实验室寄生虫标本馆中的保存材料进行了重新检查。总共研究了40个小型种标本，其链体长在30至60毫米之间，由52至85节组成，这些标本取自家猫，之前被归为。在完整标本中，计数到10 - 13排吻钩。成熟节片宽大于长，圆形睾丸集中在盘绕的输精管后方，未到达节片前缘。狭窄的阴茎囊长度可达520微米。孕节长大于宽，卵囊局限于纵排泄管之间的空间。检查发现这些绦虫的形态与的主要特征相符。然而，鲜为人知的绦虫，（塞蒂，1895年），29年前从厄立特里亚进口的中被描述过，并被宣布为，也符合相同的主要形态学标准。在本文中，作为一个有效物种的地位得以恢复，而被宣布为次异名。
