Cestode Fauna of Cave Bats in the Ryukyu Islands

• SAWADA Isamu

  Biological Laboratory, Nara University of Education

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 琉球諸島における洞穴棲コウモリの条虫相
• 琉球諸島における洞穴棲コウモリ条虫相
• リュウキュウ ショトウ ニ オケル ドウケツ セイ コウモリ ジョウチュウソウ

Abstract

(1) Cestode fauna of cave bats in Okinoerabu-jima, Okinawa-honto, Miyako-jima, Ishigaki-jima and Iriomote-jima was investigated and compared with that in the various localities of Japan at Amami-oshima and northward. (2) Only one among twelve specimens of Minioptelus schreibersii collected at Okinoerabu-jima was infected with a small larval tapeworm which could not be identified. On the other hand, sixteen specimens of Rhinolophus cornutus pumilus collected at Okinawa-honto were infected with no tapeworm. (3) In Miyako-jima, no bat was found in the eleven caves investigated. (4) Miniopterus schrebersii blepotis from Ishigaki-jima and Iriomote-jima was infected with Vampirolepis hidaensis which is always encountered in M. schrebersii in the Kinki district and westward. Rhinolophus cornutus perditus from Iriomote-jima was infected with Vampirolepis isensis peculiar to R. cornutus throughout Japan. (5) The result obtained from the present investigation revealed that, from the stand-point of bat's cestode fauna, the bats living in the Yaeyama Islands have certain connections with those living at Amami-oshima and northward.

Journal

• Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology

  Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology 14 (0), 5-9, 1978

  The Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology

Details

• CRID: 1390282679690819712
• NII Article ID: 110002339146
• NII Book ID: AN00166758
• DOI: 10.19004/pjssz.14.0_5
• ISSN: 2189728X
• ISSN: 02870223
• NDL BIB ID: 1948391
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I1948391
• Text Lang: ja
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