Journal of Helminthology

Research Papers

Three New Species of the Genus Neodiplostomum Railliet, 1919, from Central African Birds of Prey, with a note on Neodiplostomum canaliculatum (Nicoll, 1914) Dubois, 1937*

B. Bisserua1

a1 From the Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Three new species of the genus Neodiplostomum Railliet, 1919 (Subgenus Neodiplostomum, Dubois, 1937) are described from avian hosts in Central Africa. They are N. (N.) berghaani from Terathopius ecaudata, N. (N.) prudhoei from Cuncuma vocifer vocifer and N. (N.) pseudogypsis from Pseudogyps africanus.

A note is added on Neodiplostomum canaliculatum (Nicoll, 1914) Dubois, 1937.

Footnotes

* Part of a Thesis approved by the University of London for the award of the Ph.D. degree.