The Animal Parasites of ManFantham, Harold Benjamin
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The Animal Parasites of Man
Fantham, Harold Benjamin
Medical parasitology
_Cirrus Sac_--is the most characteristic feature of this species. It is
a powerfully built, convoluted sac standing out clearly on the body.
It is not a uniform, straight cylinder 0·25 to 0·33 mm. in diameter, as
in _Fasciolopsis buski_, but even in fully extended flukes is typically
convoluted. It is 1 mm. thick in the middle, but in other parts varies
much from this. The posterior end of the cirrus sac is at two-thirds or
more of the distance from ventral sucker to shell gland. In the case of
_Fasciolopsis buski_ the posterior end of the sac only extends half-way.
_Seminal Vesicle_--has a peculiar convoluted, saccular and angular
course, but the cæcal appendage characteristic of the genus appears to
be absent!
_Excretory System._--The main stem gives off very regular transverse
branches which are well seen posteriorly.
_Eggs._--100 µ by 73 µ. Thin shelled.
_Habitat._--Intestine. Mahommedan from Calcutta.
[It is evident that a re-examination of fresh material is required
before the validity of all these species can be accepted.--J. W. W. S.]
Family. *Troglotremidæ*, Odhner, 1914.
Genus. *Paragonimus*, Braun, 1899.
Body egg-shaped or somewhat elongated, generally more broadly
rounded in front than behind. Covered all over with spear-shaped
spines _arranged in groups_. Gut cæca winding with dilatations
or constrictions in parts. Ventral sucker in or in front of the
middle of the body. Excretory bladder cylindrical, very long and
broad, reaching in front to the bifurcation of the gut. The lateral
excretory canals join the bladder only a little in front of the
excretory pore. Genital pore median just behind the ventral sucker.
Genital sinus duct-like. Cirrus sac absent. Male terminal organs very
small. Ejaculatory duct present. Testes and ovary deeply lobed, the
testes in or just behind the middle, the ovary somewhat laterally
placed just _behind_ the ventral sucker. Uterus forms a coil behind
the ventral sucker. Eggs rather large, thin shelled, the ovarian cell
still unsegmented on deposition. Receptaculum seminis, small.
Parasitic in the lungs of mammals, enclosed in cyst-like cavities,
generally in pairs.
_Type Species._--_P. westermanii_ in the tiger.
*Paragonimus ringeri*, Cobb., 1880.
Syn.: _Distoma ringeri_, Cobb., 1880; _Distoma pulmonale_, Baelz,
1883; _Distoma pulmonis_, Suga, 1883.
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