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| Content | <p align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Euryhelmis pacifica</b></i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> Senger and Macy, 1952</b></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> This trematode parasite was found in mink and muskrats in Oregon (Senger CM, Macy RW. 1952. helminths of northwest mammals. Part III. The description of </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Euryhelmis</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>pacificus</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> n. sp., and notes on its life cycle. J Parasitol 38:481-486). The specimens were described as a new species due to their being pyriform rather than flat in shape. The difference is such that the species can easily be distinguished in mixed infections (Schell SC. 1964. </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Bunoderella</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>metteri</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> gen and sp. n. (Trematoda: Allocreadiidae) and other trematode parasites of </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Ascaphus</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>truei</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Stejneger. J Parasitol 50:652-655). The metacercariae are found in the Pacific Giant Salamander, </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Dicamptodon ensatus</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">, and in the tailed frog, </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Ascaphus truei</i></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">. When metacercariae from the frogs were fed to cats, they were found to harbor adult specimens of this fluke 30 days after infection. </span></span></p> |
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