Ben Slimane B, Durette-Desset M C
Laboratoire de Protozoologie et Parasitologie Comparée de l'E.P.H.E., Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
Parassitologia. 1995 Dec;37(2-3):245-8.
The Oswaldocruzia parasites of amphibians in Europe are closely related. Contrary to this, the new species Oswaldocruzia bonai discovered in the cave salamander from Sardinia shows particular and archaic characters: dorsal ray of the caudal bursa well developed and tips of the rays 4 equidistant from those of the 3 and 5; female with few eggs of large size. The lack of ridges in front of each lateral cord is a character shared with Ethiopian species but which differentiated the Sardinian species from the European species.
欧洲两栖动物的奥斯瓦尔多克鲁斯属寄生虫密切相关。与此相反，在撒丁岛洞穴蝾螈中发现的新物种博纳奥斯瓦尔多克鲁斯显示出特殊的古老特征：尾囊背肋发育良好，第4根肋的尖端与第3根和第5根肋的尖端等距；雌虫产卵少但卵大。每条侧索前方没有脊是与埃塞俄比亚物种共有的特征，但这使撒丁岛物种与欧洲物种区分开来。
