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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    region slightly inflated; mastoid processes and sagittal crest never greatly developed; zygomata never spreading abruptly, and often nearly parallel to axis of skull; interorbital constriction not marked; paroccipital processes directed outward and not sharply pointed; posterior margin of coronoid distinctly concave. Size medium to small; build much slenderer than that of Mephitis r. Feet slender. Tail very long. Ears prominent. Fur long and silky but not dense; hairs on the nape elongated and spreading sidewise, forming a sort of hood. Upper parts chiefly white, under parts black; or upper parts nearly all black, with narrow lateral stripes, and under surface of tail white; between these two extremes are many intermediate phases. Frontal stripe narrow and often absent. 552 Mephitis [or Chincha*, Mustela1] (Mephitis) americanah Desmarest, 1818, Nouv. Diet. Hist, nat., Paris, v. 21, 514. So. #552 Mephitis mephitis, fide Howell, 1901, 15. #552 Mephitis cinche (Mueller in Linn., 1776, Natursyst., Suppl., 32 [Viverra ■]). Chinga. S. America4. Not positively identifiable, fide Howell, 1901, 15. Syns.: chinche00 1777; chingaco 1808; chingha00 1815; chincha 0 ° 1827. Taenia1 < f299. Physaloptera f469. crassipora.—Small intest. maxillaris.—Stom.—Brazil. Ascaris 1 f479. alienata h s. *columnaris.— I n t e s t.— United States. #552 Mephitis chinga0 ° Tiedem., 1S08, Zool., v. 1, 362. So. #552 Mephitis cinche, q. v. #552 *Mephitis (Mephitis, Chincha) hudsoniea (Richardson, 1829, Fauna Borea.-Amer., pt. 1, 55 [Mephitis americana]) Bangs, 1895, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., v. 26, 536. Hudson’s Bay Skunk, Northern Plains Skunk. Sas- katchewan 4, Canada; western Canada from Manitoba to Brit. Columbia (east of Cascades); south in United States to Colorado, Nebraska, and Minnesota. Dermacentor f873.—Ext. t *andersoni. #552 Mephitis [or Mephites °] (Leucomitra 4) inacroura Lichtenstein, 1832- 1834, Darst. n. wenig bekannter Saugethiere, pt. 9, pi. 46. Hooded Skunk, Long-tailed skunk, langschwanziges Stinkthier. Mountains northwest of City of Mexico 4; highlands of central and southern Mexico; south to Gua- temala. Syn. M. macrurus0 True, 1885, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v. 7, 609. Neotrichodectes <(fl099.—Ext. [*mephitidis 8 Osborn.—Ariz.] #552 Mephitis memphitis (Linn., 1758a, 44 [Viverra1]). Undeterminable, fide Howell, 1901, North Amer. Fauna, no. 20, 17. #552 Mephitis mephitica0 (Shaw, 1792, Mus. Leveriani, London, 171 [Viverra1], mephitis renamed) Flower & Lydekker, 1891a, Introduc. Mamm., London, 572. Common skunk. North America. So. #552 Mephitis (Mephitis) mephitis, q. v. #552 *Mephitis [or Mustela1] (Mephitis, Chincha) mephitis (Schreber, 1776, Saugthiere, v. 3, 444, pi. 121 [Viverra1]; Erxl., 1777, Syst. Anim., 491 [Vi- verra >]) Allen and others, 1902, Science, n. s., v. 16 (394), July, 115. Canada skunk. Eastern Canada4; Nova Scotia, Quebec, and northern Ontario; west and north at least to Oxford House, Keewatin.