The life history of Spirorchis elegans Stunkard 1923 Trematoda: Spirorchiidae from the painted turtle.
The life history of Spirorchis elegans Stunkard 1923 Trematoda: Spirorchiidae from the painted turtle.
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线虫螺旋虫的生活史 Stunkard 1923 吸虫纲:来自锦龟的螺旋虫科。
DOI:
10.2307/3275175
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发表时间:
1960
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
D. Kirk
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作者:
C. G. Goodchild;D. Kirk
Since 1862, when Leared described a blood fluke, Distomum constrictum, from the "edible turtle" of England, turtle blood flukes of the family Spirorchiidae have attracted attention by their novelty and by their promise of contributing to knowledge of important flukes of man, the schistosomes. After Leared's report, sporadic and often incomplete accounts of new species of Spirorchiidae continued for the next 60 years. Stunkard (1923) presented the first scholarly review of the family and described four new species. During the next 12 years workers in America (Stunkard, 1926a, 1926b, 1928; MacCallum, 1926; Price, 1934; and Luhman, 1935), in Europe (Ejsmont, 1927), and in India (Mehra, 1933, 1934; Thapar, 1933; and Sinha, 1934) described new species, reduced others to synonomy, and juggled others between genera, often on the basis of insufficient evidence. Byrd (1939) restored order to a confused situation, and in a review of the family recognized only 8 valid genera of the 17 then extant; he also described 9 new species. Four life histories have been completed experimentally in the laboratory. The first was that of Spirorchis parvus (Stunkard, 1923) from the painted turtle by Wall (1939, 1940, 1941a). Wall (1941b) later determined the cycle of S. elephantis (Cort, 1917) also from the painted turtle. In 1951 he described the cycle of Vasotrema robustum (Stunkard, 1928) from the soft-shell turtle. The fourth cycle, by Pieper (1953), was that of S. artericola (Ward, 1921) also from painted turtles. The present paper depicts the life history of Spirorchis elegans Stunkard, 1923, described originally from two specimens taken from Pseudemys elegans Weid from Illinois. Cercariae shed from snails collected at the old Decatur reservoir, DeKalb County, Georgia, were tentatively identified as spirorchiid cercariae; subsequent laboratory studies proved that these larvae penetrated turtles and became adult worms referable to the species S. elegans. Painted turtles, Chrysemnys picta picta (Schneider), also captured at the Decatur reservoir, had adult S. elegans in the vascular system and eggs in the tissues. It was these eggs which were used to establish the experimental infections in laboratory raised snails.