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A Re-description of Echinostephilla virgula Lebour, 1909

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2009

E. Margaret Shelswell
E. Margaret Shelswell
Affiliation:
Department of Natural History, The University, St. Andrews
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Echinostephilla virgula occupies an isolated position in the Digenea; apparently it does not belong with certainty to any of the existing families and, as the original description is incomplete, it was considered worthy of re-description. This trematode was found frequently at St. Andrews between the months of September, 19–19, and March, 1951, in the intestine of the Turnstone (Arenaria interpres Linn.). There was usually a heavy parasitism, fifty to one hundred worms being found in one host. However, in spite of frequent examinations of birds shot after this period, no further specimens were found.

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Research Papers
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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 28 , Issue 3-4 , December 1954 , pp. 127 - 134
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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