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| Content | <p align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Ascocotyle longa</b></i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Ransom, 1921</b></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> This parasite was originally described from an Alaskan Fox (</span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Vulpes lagopus</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">) that died in the National Zoo in Washington DC. It has been reported from dogs in Cairo and Alexandria (Azim MA. 1938. On the intestinal helminths of dogs in Egypt. J Egypt Med Assoc 21:?????? ). However, others have felt that this was a misidentification of a species that they described as </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Phagicola longicollis</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> [see above] (Kuntz RE, Chandler AC. 1956. Studies on Egyptian trematodes with special reference to the Heterophyids of mammals. I. Adult flukes, with descriptions of </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Phagicola</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>longicollis</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> n. sp., </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Cynodiplostomum</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>namrui</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> n.sp., and a </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Stephanoprora</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> from cats. J Parasitol. 42:445-459.). Recently, cats were experimentally infected cats with Venezuelan mullet meat containing parasites identified as </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Phagicola longa (</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Conroy GA de. 1986. Investigaciones sobre la fagicolosis en lisas (Mugilidae ) de aguas americanas. I. Estudios taxonómicos de </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Phagicola</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> sp. (Trematoda: Heterophyidae) en mugílidos sudamericanos. Rev Iber Parasitol 46:39-46.).</span></span></p> |
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