Fish-Carried Parasites in Canada: (1) Parasites Carried by Fresh-Water Fish.
Fish-Carried Parasites in Canada: (1) Parasites Carried by Fresh-Water Fish.
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加拿大鱼类携带的寄生虫: (1) 淡水鱼携带的寄生虫。
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1945
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T. Cameron
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作者:
T. Cameron
This trematode was originally named by Cobbold in England in 1859 from examples found in the bile ducts of an American Red Fox which died in the London Zoological Gardens. Later, in 1872 Lewis and Cunningham, and in 1876, McConnell recorded other flukes under this same name; these were later, however, referred to the species Opisthorchis noverca. In ,1899, Looss established a new genus, Metorchis, in which he placed this trematode. Meanwhile in 1894, Stiles and Hassall described a fluke from a cat in the United States under the name of Distoma complexurn; it was later placed in the genus Parametorchis. This is distinguished from the present species by the fact that the yolk glands cross the intestinal caeca to meet anterior of the acetabulum. The main character of Parametorchis was this union of the yolk glands anterior to the "rosette"-shaped uterus; the genus Metorchis, which also had a "rosette"-shaped uterus, had the yolk glands in two separate lateral groups. The word "rosette" should not be taken too literally; it refers to a tubular uterus, with coils heaped up on themselves and more or less surrounding the acetabulum, contrasted with the undulating form seen in Opisthorchis. In 1926, Hung described a fluke from the cat which he called Parametorchis noveboracensis. In 1929, Price described P. intermedius and P. canadensis from the silver fox and mink respectively, from material collected by Law and Kennedy in Canada, and in 1934, Allen and Wardle described P. manitobensis from the dog. All of these are separable from each other on the basis of the specimens examined at the time of the various descriptions. However, when a large series is available and different hosts are infected experimentally from the same source, the differences disappear and all appear to be synonyms of Cobbold's Distoma conjunctum. All, however, had been placed in the genus Parametorchis. I have been unable to find any character that justifies the placing of Cobbold's species in any genus other than Metorchis. This leaves the genus Parametorchis with a single species, P. complexus, characterized by the union of the vitellaria. Meanwhile, in 1934, Hsu described from China, Metorchis felis, closely related to, but distinct from, M. albidus. Accordingly, the genus Metorchis has now three species in mammals, M. albidus from Europe, M. felis from China, and M. conjunctus from North America. All have very similar characteristics and all have definite geographical distributions. They can be distinguished moreover on morphological grounds as follows: