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The adhesive mechanisms of monogenetic trematodes: the attachment of Plectanocotyle gurnardi (v. Ben. & Hesse) to the gills of Trigla

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. Llewellyn
J. Llewellyn
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Comparative Physiology, University of Birmingham
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Little is known of the mechanisms whereby trematode parasites of fish gills attach themselves to their hosts. The adhesive apparatus consists of a posterior set of suckers or clamps supported by skeletal bars (sclerites) whose arrangement varies considerably in the different species. Yet though the pattern of these sclerites forms the main basis for the classification of the 200 or so species of the Diclidophoroidea into its six families, the only attempts to describe the mechanism of attachment of these parasites to their hosts appear to be those of Cerfontaine (1896), who described the attachment of Diclidophora denticulata to the gills of Gadus viretis, and of Sproston (1945a) and Llewellyn (1956a), both of whom described the attachment of Kuhnia scombri to the gills of Scomber scombrus. In the present paper the mechanism by which Plectanocotyle gurnardi (v. Ben. & Hesse) adheres to its hosts Trigla cuculus L., and T. lineata Gmelin will be described.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , October 1956 , pp. 507 - 514
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1956

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