The gastrointestinal helminths of Rattus niobe (Rodentia: Muridae) with descriptions of two new genera and three new species (Nematoda) from Papua New Guinea and Papua Indonesia Author Smales, L. R. text Zootaxa 2016 2016-05-31 4117 2 183 197 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4117.2.3 030fe6dc-d6b3-48b8-bd1d-a2133fdbfaa4 1175-5326 264715 77364DE9-61B2-4768-98BC-A77159BF7EB8

TABLE 2. Heminths from the digestive tract of 34 Rattus niobe collected from Papua New Guinea and Papua, Indonesia.

Taxon	Site in Host	Prevalence %	Intensity
Acanthocephala
Moniliformida
Moniliformis moniliformis Travassos, 1915	small intestine	5.9	1–3
Cestoda	stomach, small intestine caecum	44.1	not determined
Nematoda
Ascaridida
Ascarididae
Toxocara mackerrasae (Sprent, 1957)	stomach	2.9	1
Heterakidae
Heterakis sp. Smales, in press	caecum	41.2	1–8
Subul Subulura andersoni (Cobbold, 1876)	caecum	2.9	3
Juvenile forms	caecum	17.6	1–3
Enoplida
Trichuridae
Eucoleus sp.	small intestine	17.6	1–4
Trichuris muris (Schrank, 1788)	caecum	5.9	1–3
Oxyurida
Oxyuridae
Syphacia (Syphacia) niobe n. sp.	caecum	79.4	1–220
Syphacia sp.	caecum	2.9	2
Spirurida
Spiruridae
Protospirura kaindiensis Smales, 2001	stomach	14.7	1–7
P. muricola Gedoelst, 1916	stomach	41.2	1–10
Strongylida
Strongylina
Chabertiidae
Cyclodontostomun purvisi Adams, 1933	caecum	5.9	1
Trichostrongylina
Heligmonellidae
Nugininema titokis n. gen., n. sp.	small intestine	5.9	1–9
Rodentanema aenigma n. gen., n. sp	small intestine	5.9	4
Nippostrongylinae species 1	small intestine	11.7	1–11
Nippostrongylinae species 2	small intestine	11.7	2–4
heligmonellid	small intestine	2.9	1