Revision for “The Dilepididae Choanotaenia atopa” created on June 18, 2014 @ 11:16:23
| Title | The Dilepididae Choanotaenia atopa |
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| Content | <p align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Dilepididae</b></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Choanotaenia atopa</b></i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Rausch & McKown, 1994</b></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> The Dilepididae is in a group of tapeworms with a scolex that has four suckers and an armed rostellum. The reproductive organs are usually single per proglottid. The group as a whole is in typically found to parasitize birds and rodent. a large number of genera are considered as members of this family of tapeworms. One species has been reported from cats (Rausch & McKown, 1994)</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> a cat from Manhattan, Kansas, USA, was found to be passing the eggs of an unidentified tapeworm species. The eggs are rather thin shelled, subspherical, and 45 x 56 ?m in diameter, with a visible hexacanth embryo. The cat was treated with drocabil (18 mg/kg) about four months later, and the adult tapeworms recovered. The tapeworms passed by the cat had a maximum length of 7 cm. There are two rows of rostellar hooks, and a total of 22 hooks per rostellum. The specimens were described as </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Choanotaenia</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>atopa</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">, and it was presumed that the normal host was a small rodent. It was thought that the cat had probably become infected by eating the insect or other invertebrate that serves as the intermediate host of this parasite. </span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rausch RL, McKown RD. 1994. </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Choanotaenia</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>atopa</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> n. sp. (Cestoda: Dilepididae) from a domestic cat in Kansas. J Parasitol 80:317-320.</span></span></p> |
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