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Asia - South East Asia - Malaysia - Peninsular |
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Distribution - Records |
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Javan Rhino |
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In January, 1932, Major Arthur S. Vernay obtained, in Lower Perak, for the British Museum, one of the few re- maining specimens of the Sunda Rhinoceros, Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest. At the suggestion of my friend and colleague, Harold J. Coolidge, Jr. he undertook to collect the ecto- and endoparasites of this animal. The helminths have been reported upon by my colleague, Dr. Jack H. Sandground (1933, Jl. of Parasitology, XIX, pp. 192-204). Of ectoparasites, only numerous ticks were found; but shortly after the animal was shot, a number of horse-flies (Tabanus brunneus Macquart) were observed biting through the thick hide. Specimens of Amblyomma crenatum Examined.-Twenty-four males and twelve females (two fully engorged), off Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest, shot four miles north of Teluk Anson and south of the Sungei Lampan, Lower Perak, Federated Malay States (Major Arthur S. Vernay and Dr. P. H. Hodgkin).
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The giant ticks of the Malayan rhinoceros
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