Key-catalogue of parasites reported for carnivora (cats, dogs, bears, etc.) : with their possible public health importance / by C.W. Stiles and Clara Edith Baker.

  • Charles Wardell Stiles
Date:
1935
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Credit: Key-catalogue of parasites reported for carnivora (cats, dogs, bears, etc.) : with their possible public health importance / by C.W. Stiles and Clara Edith Baker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (i. 3/3, c. 1/1, pm. 4/4, m. 1/2); upper carnassial (which in both Indian and Burmese forms is much larger than the true molar behind it) with very large bicuspid inner tubercle and a very small pointed cusp at the anterior ex- tremity, lower carnassial with a heel (talon) about one-third as long as the tooth; molar broader than long, outer margin slightly indented, crown with several small cusps. Skull with the nasal portion rather narrow, palate ex- tending backwards to about halfway between hindmost molars and glenoid fossa; infraorbital foramen large. Vertebrae: C. 7, D. 14, L. 6, S. 4, Cd. ?. Shorter legs and longer bodies than badgers, but are allied to latter and not to Gulo or any other genus of mustelinae, so that it is incorrect to call them wolverines as Jordon and others have done; Blyth’s term Brock weasel is better, but animal is not a weasel. Eastern Asia. Syns.: Helidesc Gray, 1847, List Osteol. Spec. Brit. Mus., pp. x, 20; Melogale “ Geoffr., 1834, Voy. Indes-Orient., Zook, Paris, 129-137, mt. personata GeofTr., 1834. #506 Ilelictis everettl Thomas, 1895, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, v. 15, 331. Mount Kina Balu ‘, N. Borneo. Neotrichodectes <C|lb99.—Ext. [mephitidis 8 Osborn.-—Borneo.] #507 (504). Cavity of bulla, when divided, separated into an anterior larger and a posterior smaller chamber by a transverse partition running from stylo- mastoid to foramen lacerum posticum. See #508. #508 (516). Walls of bulla everywhere thick and permeated with air cells con- tinuous with those of mastoid, cells of which may communicate with cavity of bulla. See #509. #501). Mustelinae r Swainson, 1835, Nat. Hist. Class. Quad., pp. vii, 362.— Stoats, weasels, and polecats. Weasel-like. Skull with long cranial and short facial portions; teeth sectorial, talon of upper carnassial small, anterior; molar much wider than long; lower carnassial with cuspidate heel, metaconid present or absent; pm. 1 absent above and below; tympanic annulus in contact with roof of bulla; palatine foramina maxillary; rhinarium small; bursa of ear marginal, large or moderately so. Feet cursorial, usually hairy below, no metatarsal pad; other pads moderate or small, coarsely striate; claws short, compressed, acute, curved; digits webbed to proximal end of pads, the second, third, and fourth widely separable. Baculum with narrow, long, dee;i groove in its distal third beneath, ending in a median rounded apex. Northern hemisphere, south into northern Africa, Malay Archipelago, and northern and western S. America; in Europe west to Ireland. See #510. #510 (511). V ormela Blasius, 1S84, Bericht naturforseli. Gesellsch. Bamberg, v. 13, 9 10, 14, mt. tod. sarmatica Pallas so. (tsd. 1912) peregusna Guelden- staedt.—Tiger polecats, Tigeriltisse. Lower carnassial with evident though small metaconid; hamular in contact with bulla. Back and sides spotted and striped. Skull narrow, somewhat flattened (depth of brain-case a little more than half mastoid breadth), dorsal profile slightly arched posteriorly, rather strongly bent down from orbital region forward, zygomatic arches not specially widened, and postorbital region not unusually narrowed (distance from point of greatest narrowing to zygoma less than breadth of postorbital constriction); rostrum rather short and broad, its width about equal to that of interorbital constriction, the distance from anterior rim of orbit to gnathion equal to one-half length of brain-case; auditory bulla moderately inflated, oval or subtriangular in outline, the meatus with a tubular rim, anterior extremity of bulla in contact with hamular and nearly or quite reaching