Catenotaenia, Janicki, 1904

Haukisalmi, Voitto, Henttonen, Heikki, Hardman, Lotta, Hardman, Michael, Laakkonen, Juha, Murueva, Galina, Niemimaa, Jukka, Shulunov, Stanislav & Vapalahti, Olli, 2009, Review of tapeworms of rodents in the Republic of Buryatia, with emphasis on anoplocephalid cestodes, ZooKeys 8 (8), pp. 1-18 : 9-10

Catenotaenia sp. 1

The specimens from Cricetulus barabensis resemble Catenotaenia dendritica (Goeze, 1782) , C. laguri Smith, 1954 , C. linsdalei McIntosh, 1941 , C. reggiae Rausch, 1951 and C. ris Yamaguti, 1942 in having numerous uterine branches (39-43 in the present specimens). However, these species have either significantly more numerous (C. den- dritica, C. reggiae , C. ris ) or less numerous ( C. laguri , C. linsdalei ) testes than the present specimens (ca. 80). Moreover, three of these species are specific parasites of sciurids ( C. dendritica , C. reggiae , C. ris ), two other have been found only from Lemmiscus Thomas ( C. laguri ) and Thomomys Wied-Neuwied ( C. linsdalei ), and three of them are known only from North America ( C. reggiae , C. laguri , C. linsdalei ). We conclude that the present specimens from C. barabensis represent an undescribed species of Catenotaenia Janicki, 1904 .

Zhaltsanova (1992) reported Catenotaenia cricetorum Kirshenblat, 1949 from C. barabensis from Buryatia, but did not provide any morphological data for the cestode. We assume that the specimens of Zhaltsanova (1992) from C. barabensis actually represent the same undescribed species as found by us from Buryatian hamsters.

Voucher specimen: MSB Endo 157 from C. barabensis (Ganzurinov) .