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On Some British Larval Trematodes from Terrestrial Hosts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

W. F. Harper
W. F. Harper
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(From the Department of Anatomy, University College, University of St Andrews, Dundee.)
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Five larval trematodes have been obtained from a search of many terrestrial molluscs. All are distome cercariae developing in sporocysts. One species appears to be Cercariaeum helicis Braun the sporocyst and cercaria stages of which are described here in detail. The other four species are new. Cercaria politae lucidae n.sp. and C. lauriae cylindraceae n.sp. the two Xiphidiocercariae described are rare in this locality, each species being found only on two occasions. The larvae obtained are also less abundant and less representative of the larval Trematode groups than those met with during my search of the local fresh-water molluscs for similar parasites (Harper, 1929, 1931).

During the investigation two new records have been added to the molluscan fauna of Forfarshire (Vice county, No. 90), viz. Polita lucida Drap., and Succinea elegans Risso. No helminth parasites were found in the last-named mollusc.

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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , October 1932 , pp. 307 - 317
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1932

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