| helminth parasites of the wild rabbit oryctolagus cuniculus near malham tarn, yorkshire, uk. | between 1992 and 1996, 95 rabbits from the immediate locality of malham tarn, north yorkshire, uk were examined for the presence of helminth parasites. all the examinations took place in late september or october. three species of nematodes, graphidium strigosum, passalurus ambiguus and trichostrongylus retortaeformis and two species of cestodes, taenia pisiformis and cittotaenia pectinata were identified. there were no associations between helminth species richness and year of sampling, host we ... | 1999 | 10654397 |
| records of anoplocephaline cestodes from wild rabbits and hares collected throughout great britain. | four species of anoplocephaline cestodes were found in wild rabbits collected throughout britain in 1962 and 1972, i.e; since the great reduction in rabbit numbers following the introduction of myxomatosis, in 1953. they were cittotaenia pectinata (goeze, 1782), c. denticulata (rudolphi, 1804), c. ctenoides (rhiehm, 1881) and andrya cuniculi (blanchard 1891). c. pectinata and c. denticulata were relatively common with a respective prevalence of 25% and 8% in two samples totalling 442 rabbits and ... | 1975 | 1127217 |