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On the Ascaris from Sheep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

T. Goodey
T. Goodey
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(Principal Research Assistant, Institute of Agricultural Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.)
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Worms belonging to the genus Ascaris occur occasionally in the small intestine of sheep and lambs and have been reported both in Europe and America. They have been considered by some to belong to a distinct species, namely Ascaris ovis Rudolphi, and by others to be identical with Ascaris lumbricoides Linnaeus. The question of their specific identity is an interesting one and could not be considered as definitely settled one way or the other and though possibly the majority of helmin-thologists would subscribe to the view that the species is A. lumbricoides (vide Ransom 1911, p.25, and Ransom and Foster 1920, p. 30), others hold a different view; in fact Neuveu-Lemaire (1923) has recently published a paper in which he describes a single specimen of Ascaris from a goat as Ascaris ovis.

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Research Papers
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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , March 1926 , pp. 1 - 6
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1926

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