Reference Base Notes for: Diseases - Parasites back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (2) 1 2  Glover, P.E.; Sheldrick, D. 1964 An urgent research problem on the elephant and rhino populations of the Tsavo National Park in Kenya. Bulletin of Epizootic Diseases of Africa 12: 33-38 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino It was noticed that many of the rhino had extensive black patches on their sides which microscopic examination showed to be a thin film of dried blood. At first it was thought that it may have been caused by heavy infestations of biting flies, Luperosia sp., and another as yet unidentified musci...   details Clarke, J.E. 1964 Game elimination as a means of tsetse control with special reference to host preferences. Puku 2: 62-75, tables 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino Tsetse fly game eliminiation in Fort Jameson, Zambia, 1956-1961. The tsetse fly Glossina morsitans found on the only one rhino killed during the oprations. Rhino is a host to the tsetse fly.   details Reed, T.H. 1964 National Zoological Park Report (Arrival of Deepali and Rajkumari from Assam). Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 1964 (pub. 1965): Select pages, 2 plates, 1 table Location: Subject: Species: Captive - North America Diseases - Parasites Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Condy, J.B.; MacCulloch, J.I.M.; Rodger, J.O.K.; Thomson, J.W. 1963 The treatment of eight square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) with an anthelmintic. Journal of the South African Veterinary Medicine Association 34 (1): 99-101, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Diseases - Parasites White Rhino Bot fly larvae of the genus Gyrostigma commonly occur in white rhinoceros at Umfolosi, and as nematode egg counts on the faeces of the eight animals imported to Rhodesia showed a fairly high level of infestation, it appeared highly desirable to reduce their parasitic burdens to a minimum, in the ...   details USDA Agricultural Research Service, Animal Disease Eradication Division 1963 Exotic ticks found on imported rhinoceros (SWR). Report of Cooperative Tick Eradication Activities (published 15 August): page 6 Location: Subject: Species: America - North America Diseases - Parasites White Rhino Two dead male ticks found on one Southern White rhinoceros imported from Umfolozi Game Reserve in September 1962 and housed at the Catskill Game Farm.   details Zumpt, F. 1962 The genus Gyrostigma Brauer (Diptera: Gasterophilidae). Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde 22: 245-260, figs. 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: World Diseases - Parasites Sumatran Rhino Gyrostigma sumatrensis (Diptera: Gasterophilidae) recorded in stomach of Dicerorhinus sumatrensis .   details Zumpt, F. 1962 The genus Gyrostigma Brauer (Diptera: Gasterophilidae). Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde 22: 245-260, figs. 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: World Diseases - Parasites White Rhino Gyrostigma pavesii (Diptera: Gasterophilidae) recorded in stomach of Ceratotherium simum and Diceros bicornis   details Zumpt, F. 1962 The genus Gyrostigma Brauer (Diptera: Gasterophilidae). Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde 22: 245-260, figs. 1-12 Location: Subject: Species: World Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino Gyrostigma conjungens and Gyrostigma pavesii (Diptera: Gasterophilidae) recorded in stomach of Diceros bicornis   details Fitzsimmons, W.M. 1962 Parabronema roundi n.sp. (Spiruridae: Nematoda) from Rhinoceros bicornis in Kenya. Journal of Helminthology 36 (1/2): 39-44, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: World Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino Parabronema roundi (Spiruridae, Nematoda) - first description. This new species is described from material consisting of four males and six females said to have been recovered from the intestine of Rhinoceros bicornis in Keny-a and sent to the writer through the courtesy of Mr. M. C. Round, B.Sc...   details Theiler, G.; Salisbury, L.E. 1959 Ticks in the South African Zoological Survey collection, part IX: The Amblyomma-marmoreum group. Onderstepoort Journal of veterinary Science 28 (1): 47-123 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - South Africa Diseases - Parasites African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Cerny, V. 1958 Fund von zwei Amblyomma-Arten vom Nashorn (Diceros bicornis). Zoologische Garten 24 (3/4): 287-288, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino Ticks collected from Diceros bicornis imported in Zoo Berlin (East) from Kilimajaro in autumn 1956. Two ticks were found, i.e. Amblyomma marmoreum Koch and Amblyomma gemma D?nitz. A. marmoreum was represented by 8 males, A.gemma by one male. It is known that in Amblyomma the males often stay ...   details Teuscher, E.; Stuenzi, H. 1956 Ueber parasitologische Kotuntersuchungen beu Saugetieren des Zoologischen Gartens Zurich. Acta Tropica 13: 262-269, table 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino Had 3 examinations of dung of Diceros bicornis and found no Parascaris, and found Stringylidae (Strongylus and Trichonema sp.)   details Hoogstraal, H. 1954 Noteworthy African tick records in the British Museum (Natural History) collections (Ixodoidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 56 (6): 273-279 Location: Subject: Species: World Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino Dermacentor rhinocerinus Denny, 1813 (= D. rhinocerotis of authors). [In British Museum, London] 1 male, from Diceros bicornis, Northern Rhodesia (withoiut further locality), 6 July 1932, H.S. Purchase (Nuttall lot 3856). This specimen, which has been determined as 'variety permaculatus Nm' appe...   details Hoogstraal, H. 1954 Noteworthy African tick records in the British Museum (Natural History) collections (Ixodoidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 56 (6): 273-279 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Sudan Diseases - Parasites White Rhino Amblyomma rhinocerotis de Geer, 1778 (= A. petersi Karsch, 1878) (Ixodidae). [In British Museum, London] 1 male, 1 female from grass, Kajo Kaji, Equatoria Province, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Captain C.M. Stigand. Previously only known from Torit and Bor in the Sudan, this is the only record of the r...   details Hoogstraal, H. 1954 Noteworthy African tick records in the British Museum (Natural History) collections (Ixodoidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 56 (6): 273-279 Location: Subject: Species: World Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino Amblyomma cohaerens D?nitz, 1909 (Ixodidae). [In British Museum, London] 4 males, 1 female from black rhinoceros, Fateo, Victoria Nile, Uganda, C.R.S. Pitman. This is the only record of the buffalo tick attacking a rhinoceros.   details Gee, E.P. 1953 Further observations on the Great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (R. unicornis Linn.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 51 (4): 765-772, pls. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South Asia - India - Assam Diseases - Parasites Indian Rhino A new-born calf left by mother overnight was found with 6 leeches on it but no blood.   details Wilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Diseases - Parasites African Rhino Species The rhino is host to a special tick, Dermatocentes rhinocerotes, of which males and females have different colours. There is also a tick with coloured legs, Hyalomma aegyptium. there are large numbers of 'draadwormen' in the stomach of a female and also a very large kind of larva of Gastrus.   details Babault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Diseases - Parasites White Rhino This rhinoceros is parasitized by Oestrides, of which we found of numerous larvas hung to the partitions of the stomach.   details Porter, A. 1947 Report of the honorary pathologist for 1946. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 117 (4): 673-674 Location: Subject: Species: World Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino Records from Diceros bicornis. Trichuris sp. (Nematoda) Strongyloid ova, not classified (Nematoda).   details Baylis, H.A. 1939 A new species of Oxyuris (Nematoda) from a rhinoceros. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11) 3: 516-524, figs. 1-5 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Uganda Diseases - Parasites African Rhino Species Oxyuris karamoja. The species to be described in this paper was obtained from an African rhinoceros (Rhinoceros bicornis) in the Karamoja district of Uganda, and specimens of it were kindly forwarded to the writer by the Senior Veterinary Research Officer at Entebbe. The type-specimens will be ...   details Jack, R.W. 1936 Ticks infesting domestic animals in Southern Rhodesia. Rhodesia Agricultural Journal 33 (12): 907-929 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino Hyalomma aegyptium impressum C.L.Koch, the bont-leg tick, recorded for adults from rhinoceros (among others). Ambylomma marmoreum Koch, the Tortoise tick, recorded by Neumann from rhinoceros and genet. This species has since been taken in numbers from rhinoceros in Southern Rhodesia. Amblyom...   details Krygsman, B.J. 1933 De in zoogdieren en vogels parasiteerende wormen van Nederlandsch Indie. Veeartsenijkundige Mededelingen 80: 172-185 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia Diseases - Parasites Asian Rhino Species Crossocephalus longicaudatus (Nematodes) in intestines of rhinoceros from Neth.Indies.   details Lewis, E.A. 1933 Rhipicephalus ayrei n.sp. (a tick) from Kenya Colony. Parasitology 25 (2): 269-272, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya Diseases - Parasites African Rhino Species Rhipicephalus ayrei n.sp. (a tick) from Kenya Colony. Male: Large, 4.00 - 7.75 mm long. Salienbt features: Inornate; basis capituli nearly twice as broad as long; lateral angles within the anterior third and rather acute. Anterior coxae slightly prominent in dorsal view. Lateral grooves well...   details Wilhelm, J.H. 1933 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 6: 51-74, figs. 1-15 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino Parasites include ticks with coloured feet (Dermatorentor rhinocerotes). There are larvae of gastrus and 'draadwormen'   details Bequaert, J. 1933 The giant ticks of the Malayan rhinoceros. Psyche 40: 137-143 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Diseases - Parasites Asian Rhino Species Amblyomma sp. from R.sondaicus and D.sumatrensis. In January, 1932, Major Arthur S. Vernay obtained, in Lower Perak, for the British Museum, one of the few remaining specimens of the Sunda Rhinoceros, Rhinoceros sondaicus Desmarest. At the suggestion of my friend and colleague, Harold J. Coolid...   details Oudemans, A.C. 1933 Acarologische aanteekeningen CIX. Entomologische Berichten 8: 272-280 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino On 7 May [1933] there arrived in the Artis Zoo the young rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) caught in the region of Kilima-Ndjaro and Mero?. The animal had many ticks, mostly roaming free, and all except one being males. I received the material for determination from Dr H Engel after being caught by...   details Schwetz, J. 1927 Contribution des Ixodidae (Tigues) du Congo Belge. Revue Zoologique Africaine 15 (1): 81-92 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Congo (Zaire) Diseases - Parasites White Rhino Reports a specimen of Dermacentor rhinocerotis (Ixodidae) in the collection of the Mus?e du Congo Belge in Tervuren, identified by Nuttal. It was collected in N.E. Uel? by Rodhain from Ceratotherium simum.   details Taylor, E.L. 1925 The genus Kiluluma. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 19 (1): 53-55 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino Worms from rhino in Zimbabwe - genus Kiluluma. This genus was the subject of a recent paper by Thapar (1924), who divided it into six new species: unfortunately, he does not give any key to assist in placing a member of the genus in its proper species, nor does he give any list of differences of...   details Thapar, G.S. 1925 On some new members of the genus Kiluluma from the African rhinoceros. Journal of Helminthology 3 (2): 63-80, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: World Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino Four new species of Kiluluma (nematodes) from Diceros bicornis. In a recent study (1924) I have given an account of the genus Kiluluma, describing six species collected by Prof. Leiper from an African rhinoceros in Uganda, and have elucidated certain interesting points in its anatomy. A further...   details Fox, H. 1925 Exfoliative dermatitis in the Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) with respect to a new yeast species Pityrosporum pachydermatis. Report of the Laboratory and Museum of Comparative Pathology of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia 1925: 36-44, 51, 12 figures Location: Subject: Species: Captive - North America Diseases - Parasites Indian Rhino No details available yet   details Thapar, G.S. 1924 On Kiluluma Skriabin, a genus of Strongylid nematodes parasitic in the African rhinoceros. Journal of Helminthology 2 (5): 209-238, figs. 1-4 Location: Subject: Species: World Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino Genus Kiluluma, six new species from Diceros bicornis and Kiluluminae. The earliest account of the Strongylid parasites of the rhinoceros is given by von Linstow (1907) where he describes the only form under the name Deletrocephalus stylosus. His description of this type is brief and now inadeq...   details Zukowsky, L. 1924 Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Saeugetiere der noerdlichen Teile Deutsch-Suedwestafrikas unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung des Grosswildes. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 90A (1): 29-164, figs. 1-12, 1 text-fig., table 1 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Namibia Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino Steinhardt found a special kind of ringworm in the rhino of the Kaokoveld, which is being investigated by prof Michaelsen of the Zoological Museum in Hamburg.   details Southwell, T. 1921 A new species of cestode (Anoplocephala vulgaris) from an African rhinoceros. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 14 (3): 355-364, figs. 1-9 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino Cestode, Anoplocephala vulgaris, n.sp. Twelve specimens, a large number of fragments, and several single segments, were obtained by Professor Yorke on 23rd August, 1912, from a rhinoceros (Rhinoceros bicornis), at Ngoa, N.E. Rhodesia. External characters Probably this worm does not exceed a le...   details Schulze, P. 1919 Bestimmungstabelle fur das Zeckengenus Hyalomma Koch. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1919: 189-196, figs. 1-6 Location: Subject: Species: World Diseases - Parasites All Rhino Species Hyalomma (=Cosmiomma) hippopotamense Denny, 1843. This species is usually called Dermacentor rhinocerotis DeGeer, with D. rhinocerinus Denny as a synonym. The poor figure published by DeGeer (vol.7, pl. 38 fig.6) does not represent a tick of this genus, is rather the species which has been know...   details Baylis, H.A. 1919 A new species of the nematode genus Crossocephalus from the rhinoceros. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9) 4: 94-98 Location: Subject: Species: Captive Diseases - Parasites Sumatran Rhino No details available yet   details Bequaert, J. 1916 Parasitic muscid larvae collected from the African elephant and the white rhinoceros by the Congo expeditions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35: 377-387, figs. 1-3 Location: Subject: Species: World Diseases - Parasites White Rhino Gastric larva of Ceratotherium simum: Gyrostigma. The existence of larvae in the stomach of rhinoceroses has been known for a long time but it is only recently that we have had any definite information concerning the life history of these parasites. The first reference to the presence of Oestri...   details Howard, C.W. 1908 A list of the ticks of South Africa (Rhipicephalus). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 1 (2) August: 114-134, 4 plates Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa Diseases - Parasites African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Howard, C.W. 1908 A list of the ticks of South Africa (Amblyomma). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 1 (2) August: 135-147, 2 plates Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa Diseases - Parasites African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Howard, C.W. 1908 A list of the ticks of South Africa (Dermacentor). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 1 (2) August: 157-159, host list, bibliography, 1 plate Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa Diseases - Parasites African Rhino Species No details available yet   details Neumann, G. 1901 Revision de la famille des Ixodides. Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France 14: 249-372, figs. 1-18 Location: Subject: Species: Asia - South East Asia - Indonesia - Sumatra Diseases - Parasites Asian Rhino Species Specimens of Amblyomma crenatum, 2 males and 2 females found by M?sch in Sumatra (Mus. Berlin). The ones in Paris are from Africa. This distribution is strange. Probably 'Sumatra' is not correct.   details Neumann, G. 1899 Revision de la famille des Ixodides. Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France 12: 107-294, figs. 1-63 Location: Subject: Species: World Diseases - Parasites All Rhino Species pp. 214-215, fig 52 (female), description of Amblyomma crenatum n.sp. Type is a female taken from a rhinoceros of the Cape of Good Hope, in Paris Museum. pp. 263, description of Amblyomma subluteum sp. nov. Described after 2 specimens, one without locality, the other taken from an African ...   details Garrod, A.H. 1881 On the Taenia of the rhinoceros of the Sunderbunds (Plagiotaenia gigantea, Peters): pp. 151-152 In: Forbes, W.A. The collected scientific papers of the late Alfred Henry Garrod. Edited, with a biographical memoir of the author. London : R. H. Porter: pp. i-xxv, 1-537 Location: Subject: Species: Asia Diseases - Parasites Javan Rhino No details available yet   details Cobbold, T.S. 1879 Parasites, a treatise on the Entozoa of man and animals, including some account of the Ectozoa. London, J. and A. Churchill, pp. i-x, 1-508 Location: Subject: Species: World Diseases - Parasites All Rhino Species In 1856, Peters described a tapeworm from R. africanus: Taenia gigantea. In 1870, Murie dscribed a strobile of the same cestode of an R. unicornis as T. magna. In 1877, Garrod described a cestode in R. sondaicus, Plagiotaenia gigantea. The rhinocerine stomach bot (Gastrophilus rhinocerontis, O...   details Garrod, A.H. 1877 On the Taenia of the rhinoceros of the Sunderbunds (Plagiotaenia gigantea, Peters). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877 November 20: 788-789, fig. 1 Location: Subject: Species: World Diseases - Parasites Javan Rhino Taenia gigantea. In 1856 Dr. Wm. Peters (Monatsb.der Akad. der Wissensch. zu Berlin, 1856, p. 469) described a tapeworm which he found in an African Rhinoceros from Mossambique, which he named Taenia gigantea. In 1870' Dr. Murie (PZS 1870, p. 608) described the adult proglottides of a tapeworm ...   details Peters, W. 1871 Note on the Taenia from the rhinoceros, lately described by Dr J. Murie. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871: 146-147, figs. 1-2 Location: Subject: Species: World Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino Taenia gigantea - description Plagiotaenia sp. The large cestoid worm, described doubtfully by Dr Murie as Taenia magna and based on imperfect specimens from Rhinoceros unicornis, appears to be the same as I found in the small intestine of Diceros bicornis and described in 1856. The accurate fi...   details Jesse, W. 1869 Remarks upon the Abyssinian expedition. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1869 January 28: 111-117 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Eastern Africa - Ethiopia Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino Collected from the dung of black rhinoceros a few Coleoptera.   details Peters, W. 1856 Ueber eine neue Taenia. Monatsberichte der Koniglichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1856: 469 Location: Subject: Species: Africa - Southern Africa - Mozambique Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino Taenia gigantea from gut of Diceros bicornis Description: Taenia gigantea, n. sp. Caput magnum, latum, globosum, quarilobum, rostello brevi rotundato conico, bothridiis vrassis, margine postico libero; collum subnullum; corpus crassum lanceolatum; articuli brevissimi et latissimi, marginibus p...   details Denny, H. 1843 Description of six supposed new species of parasites [Ixodes rhinocerinus]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12: 312-316 Location: Subject: Species: Africa Diseases - Parasites Black Rhino No details available yet   details back to search page Sort order: ------------------- Date ASC Author normal    (2) 1 2