Revision for “Ascocotyle pachycystis” created on June 18, 2014 @ 12:58:36
| Title | Ascocotyle pachycystis |
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| Content | <p align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Ascocotyle pachycystis</b></i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Schroeder and Leigh, 1965</b></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> As part of the study of the life cycle of this parasite that typically infects raccoons, kittens were experimentally infected (Schroeder RE, Leigh WH. 1965. The life history of </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Ascocotyle</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>pachycystis</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> sp. n., a trematode (Digenea: Heterophyidae) from the raccoon in south Florida. J Parasitol 51:594-599.). The snail, </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Littotadinops tenuipes</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">, is the snail in which development occurs. The cercariae that are produced have pigmented eyespots short unbranched tails with lateral fins. These cercariae penetrate the fins of brackish-water fish (</span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Cyprinodon variegatus</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">) and then migrate to the bulbus arteriosus of the heart where very large numbers might occur. When kittens were fed fish containing metacercariae, some developed infections while others appeared refractory.</span></span></p> |
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