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Cerny, V. 1958 Fund von zwei Amblyomma-Arten vom Nashorn (Diceros bicornis). Zoologische Garten 24 (3/4): 287-288, fig. 1
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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 ...
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File AvailableTeuscher, E.; Stuenzi, H. 1956 Ueber parasitologische Kotuntersuchungen beu Saugetieren des Zoologischen Gartens Zurich. Acta Tropica 13: 262-269, table 1
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Had 3 examinations of dung of Diceros bicornis and found no Parascaris, and found Stringylidae (Strongylus and Trichonema sp.)
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File AvailableHoogstraal, 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
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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...
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File AvailableHoogstraal, 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
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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...
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File AvailableHoogstraal, 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
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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.
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File AvailableGee, 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
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A new-born calf left by mother overnight was found with 6 leeches on it but no blood.
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File AvailableWilhelm, J.H. 1950 Das Wild des Okawangogebietes und des Caprivizipfels. Journal of the South-West Africa Scientific Society 7: 1-7
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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.
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File AvailableBabault, G. 1949 Notes ethologiques sur quelques mammiferes africains. Mammalia 13: 1-16
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White Rhino
This rhinoceros is parasitized by Oestrides, of which we found of numerous larvas hung to the partitions of the stomach.
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File AvailablePorter, A. 1947 Report of the honorary pathologist for 1946. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 117 (4): 673-674
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Records from Diceros bicornis. Trichuris sp. (Nematoda) Strongyloid ova, not classified (Nematoda).
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File AvailableBaylis, 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
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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 ...
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