Revision for “CYATHOCOTYLIDAE” created on June 18, 2014 @ 12:43:23
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| Content | <p align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>CYATHOCOTYLIDAE</b></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> One group of trematodes found in the intestine of cats are Cyathocotylids, represented by the genera </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Mesostephanus</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> and </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Prohemistomum</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">. The adults of these trematodes parasitize the intestine of piscivorous reptiles, birds, and mammals. These flukes are characterized by the presence of a glandular tribocytic organ that is present in addition to the ventral sucker (The ventral sucker is absent in some genera.). The body may be weakly divided into forebody and hindbody regions, and a cirrus sac is present at the posterior end of the body.</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Besides natural infections with </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Mesostephanus</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>milvi</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> and </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Prohemistomum vivax</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> (discussed below), cats have been reported to have been experimentally infected with </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Mesostephanus</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>appendiculatus</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> in Romania and with </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Prohemistomum</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>vivax</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> in Egypt by feeding them infected fish (Chandler AC. 1950. </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Mesostephanus</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>longisaccus</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> a new Cyathocotylid trematode from a dog. J Parasitol. 46: ???).</span></span></p> |
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