| Description |
Tapeworms of the genus Moniezia in the family Anoplocephalidae (Cyclophyllidea, Cestoda) are mainly parasites of ruminant animals, including musk deer, cattle, goat, and sheep, causing severe monieziasis in domestic and wild animals. Moniezia sichuanensis Wu 1982 is a unique species found in wild musk deer. From 1995 to 1996, approximately half of young forest musk deers at a center of forest musk deer farming and research died of monieziasis, and all of the parasites were identified as M. sichuanensis. Most of the research in monieziasis of musk deer focused on morphology , epidemiology, and molecular taxonomy, while the phylogeny of this taxa is ambiguous. So far, no complete mitogenome sequence information of M. sichuanensis is available. |
