Abstract
Six species of the family Heligmonellidae (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea), including 3 new species, are recorded from rodents of the subfamily Murinae in the Ryukyu Archipelago and Taiwan. Heligmonoides ikeharai n. sp. from Tokudaia osimensis muenninki on Mt. Yonaha, Okinawa Island, is characterized by extremely long spicules and hypertrophied ridges in the prevulval region. Heligmonoides taiwanensis n. sp. from Apodemus draco on Mt. Alishan, Taiwan, is distinguished from other members of the genus in having a markedly asymmetrical bursa and stout bursal rays. Heligmonoides alishanensis n. sp. from Niviventer confucianus on Mt. Alishan differs from the allied forms in lacking hypertrophied ridges at the level of the middle of the spicules and in having longer spicules and a smaller body. Nippostrongylus sp. from N. confucianus on Mt. Alishan resembles Nippostrongylus brasiliensis but is distinguishable in that the externolateral ray is almost the same length as the lateroventral ray in the left lobe, and the fused tips of the spicules are thin and straight. Heligmonoides ryukyensis from Mus caroli and Orientostrongylus tenorai from Bandicota indica are first recorded from Taiwan. Heligmonellid nematodes parasitic in wild rodents in these areas are considered to have been introduced with their hosts from the mainlands of China and Japan through land connections in the Pleistocene.
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