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Cobbold, T.S. 1879. Parasites, a treatise on the Entozoa of man and animals, including some account of the Ectozoa. London, J. and A. Churchill. pp. i-x, 1-508.

Parasites, a treatise on the Entozoa of man and animals, including some account of the Ectozoa

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In 1856, Peters described a tapeworm from R. africanus: Taenia gigantea. In 1870, Murie dscribed a strobile of the same cestode of an R. unicornis as T. magna. In 1877, Garrod described a cestode in R. sondaicus, Plagiotaenia gigantea. The rhinocerine stomach bot (Gastrophilus rhinocerontis, Owen) described in 1840, has a large distribution. It is frequently encountered in India and Africa, in R. unicornis, bicornis and simus.

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