The Animal Parasites of ManFantham, Harold Benjamin
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The Animal Parasites of Man
Fantham, Harold Benjamin
Medical parasitology
_Cirrus sac usually reaching to centre of ventral sucker, but not
beyond. Cirrus long, usually without spines, coiled when retracted.
Seminal vesicle tubular, twisted. On the head a ventral uniting ridge
between the angles of the collar. Dorsal circlet of spines, single or
double, not interrupted unless the collar itself is dorsally divided.
Genera_: Echinostoma, etc.
Sub-family. *Himasthlinæ*, Odhner, 1910.
Cirrus sac reaching far beyond ventral sucker. Cirrus armed with
strong rose-thorn-shaped hooks. Vesicula seminalis tubular not
coiled. Cervical collar not continued across ventral aspect. Spines
on collar in one row. Body armed with fine needle-shaped spines.
Family. *Schistosomidæ*, Looss, 1899.
Sexes separate. Genital pore behind the ventral sucker. Ventral
sucker elevated above the surface. Pharynx absent. Gut forks reunite
to form a single stem. In ♂ four or more testicular follicles. In ♀ a
single ovary, just in front of the union of the gut forks. Vitellaria
on either side of the united gut stem.
THE TREMATODES OBSERVED IN MAN.
Family. *Paramphistomidæ*, Stiles and Goldberger, emend. 1910.
Sub-family. *Cladorchiinæ*, Fisch., 1901.
Genus. *Watsonius*, Stiles and Goldberger, 1910.
_Cladorchinæ_.--Body pyriform. Ventral pouch absent. Acetabulum
ventral or (?) ventro-subterminal, very large, margins projecting,
aperture small. Genital pore in front of bifurcation of gut, not
surrounded by a sucker; ductus hermaphroditicus apparently absent.
Excretory pore at posterior end of excretory vesicle, behind Laurer’s
canal. Oral sucker with a pair of irregularly globular suctorial
pouches; œsophagus thickened distally; cæca long, not wavy; end in
acetabular region.
_Male Organs_.--Testes two lobed, smaller than acetabulum;
longitudinally, nearly or quite coinciding; transversely they abut or
slightly overlap; preovarial in equatorial and caudal thirds. Pars
musculosa not largely developed; cirrus pouch absent.
_Female Organs_.--Ovary and shell gland post-testicular. Vitellaria
extend from gut fork to slightly beyond gut ending; uterus
intercæcal, partly post-testicular. Laurer’s canal in front of
excretory vesicle.
_Type Species_.--_Watsonius watsoni_, Conyngham, 1904.
*Watsonius watsoni*, Stiles and Goldberger, 1910.
Syn.: _Amphistomum watsoni_, Conyngham, 1904; _Cladorchis watsoni_,
Shipley, 1905.
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