by Anastasia Bowman | Jun 13, 2014
Nanophyetus salmincola Chapin, 1928 (Figure 2-31) ETYMOLOGY:Nano = posterior and phyetus = genitalia along with salmincola = for the salmonid second hosts. SYNONYMS: Chapin, 1926 first described this fluke as Nanophyes salmincola. He later (1928) changed the name to...
by Anastasia Bowman | Jun 13, 2014
NANOPHYETIDAE These small flukes are found in the intestinal tract of numerous mammals. There are large anterior and ventral suckers. The testes are symmetrical, large, and are in the hindbody. The cercarial stage that comes from the snail has a stylet and a...
by Anastasia Bowman | Jun 13, 2014
Plagiorchis massino Petrov and Tikhonov, 1927 This fluke was originally described from dogs and cats in Armenia and Kazakistan. It has also been reported from a single cat found infected in Newfoundland, Canada (Smith FR, Threllfall W. 1973. Helminths of some mammals...
by Anastasia Bowman | Jun 13, 2014
PLAGIORCHIDAE The plagiorchids are characterized by having well developed oral and ventral suckers, an ovary just posterior to the ventral sucker, and a pair of testes at the beginning of the posterior of the body that are situated diagonally from each other...
by Anastasia Bowman | Jun 13, 2014
Microphalloidesvajrasthirae Waikagul, 1983 This trematode was recovered from a cat from a province in Central Thailand (Waikagul J. 1983. Microphalloidesvajrasthirae n. sp. (Digenea: Microphallidae) from the small intestine of cat in Thailand. Southeast Asian J...
