The Development and Morphology of the Miracidium of Paramphistomum hiberniae Willmott, 1950

1952 ◽  
Vol 26 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 123-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Willmott

Since the description by Looss in 1892 of the life-history of Diplodiscus subclavatus, and in 1896 of the miracidia of Gastrothylax gregarius, G. aegyptiacus and Paramphistomum cervi, there have been very few accounts of paramphistome life-histories. Gary (1909) published an account of the life-history of Diplodiscus temperatus, which Cort considered to be incorrect, and Krull and Price (1982) repeated the work on the same species. Beaver (1929) published an account of all the developmental stages of Allassostoma parvum except the sporocyst; Brumpt (1986) described the cercaria and the experimental infection of the intermediate and final hosts of P. cervi in Corsica. Willey (1941) has described the life-history and bionomics of Zygocotyle lunata, but has not given a very detailed account of the development of the egg and miracidium. The fullest account of a paramphistome has been given by Bennett (1986) of a species which was identified as Cotyhphoron cotylophorum, but which Price and Mackintosh (1944) consider to be a new species of the genus Paramphistomum, namely P. microbothrioides. Since the submission of this paper as part of a thesis for the Ph.D. degree, two further papers on the development of paramphistomes have come to the notice of the author. These are by Sinha (1950) on the development of C. cotylophorum in India, and by Willey and Godman (1951) on that of Z. lunata in America.

1952 ◽  
Vol s3-93 (24) ◽  
pp. 427-434
Author(s):  
MONICA TAYLOR

Material collected in Loch Tannoch was allowed to macerate in a chemical nutrient. A rich crop of Euglena gracilis as well as other infusoria resulted. Eight months later, when the Euglena had encysted, many amoebae were found at the bottom of the receptacle. They constitute a new species, here named Amoeba hugonis. An average adult specimen, when extended, measures about 104x52·2µ. The nucleus consists of a central karyosome lying in the nuclear sap, separated from the cytoplasm by a wellmarked nuclear membrane. Between the latter and the karyosome is situated an achromatic ‘collar’ with chromatin particles embedded in it. Fission is described, but a study of mitosis has been deferred. The life-history of this small amoeba is very similar to that of the large A. proteus, &c. The cycle occupies two months. Chromidia begin to appear in the cytoplasm of the early adult. They give rise to spores, out of which amoebulae hatch.


1961 ◽  
Vol 35 (S1) ◽  
pp. 53-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Dinnik ◽  
N. N. Dinnik

A half a century ago, R. T. Leiper described a new species belonging to the genus Fasciola from specimens which he collected from hippopotami at the Murchison Falls, on the Victoria Nile in Uganda, in the summer of 1907. This species, Fasciola nyanzae, was found in the bile ducts of the liver, and in most instances the specimens were somewhat macerated owing to the length of time that had elapsed before the animal could be recovered from the water. Nevertheless, the characteristic shape of these liver flukes and the restriction of the branched testes to the anterior third of the body made it possible to recognise them as being different from all other species of the genus known at that time.


1901 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
August Busck

During a visit to Professor Fernald, in Amherst, Mass., last spring, he showed me a Nepticula, bred from Apple, which he had described in manuscript as a new species, but which he afterwards had suspected to be Micropteryx pomivorella, Packard.From reading the description and life-history of packard's species, I felt sure that it was a Nepticula and presumably the same as Professor Fernald's species, and a week after, while studying the collection in the Agassiz Museum, Cambridge, I obtained definite proof that we were right.


1960 ◽  
Vol 92 (10) ◽  
pp. 775-779 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. C. Herne ◽  
Wm. L. Putman

The ‘clover’ mite, Bryobia praetiosa Koch, has long been known to be a complex of closely related species or biological races differing greatly in host range, life-history, and habits. Morgan and Anderson (1957) reviewed the problem and described the form occurring on fruit trees in British Columbia as a new species, B. arborea, to be known as the brown mite, and these authors (Anderson and Morgan, 1958) also published a detailed study of the life-histories and habits of this species and of the true clover mite, B. praetiosa. Although the presence of Bryobia mites on fruit trees in Eastern North America, including Ontario, has long been recognized, they have seldom received more than casual mention and no extensive study of their biology in this area appears to have been undertaken. The species has little economic importance in Ontario (Putman and Herne, 1959).


2020 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 67-85
Author(s):  
Austin J. Baker ◽  
John M. Heraty

The larval morphology and life history of the weevil parasitoid Eutrichosoma mirabile Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae) are described, and the phylogenetic placement of the subfamily Eutrichosomatinae within Chalcidoidea is determined using larval morphological characters. A description of Eutrichosoma burskisp. nov. and key to the species of Eutrichosoma are provided.


Parasitology ◽  
1944 ◽  
Vol 36 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 122-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. A. Baylis

The main features of the life-history of Mermis nigrescens, so far as it is known, are briefly discussed. Some data have been collected on its distribution in the British Isles, and on the seasonal appearance of the egg-laying females. The insect hosts of the worm are discussed, and feeding experiments on various invertebrates are recorded, including the experimental infection of the common earwig (Forflctila auricularia). This insect, which has also been found naturally infested, is regarded as an important host for the species, more especially where grasshoppers are absent. Observations by other workers on the influence of the number of larvae per host on the sex of the developing worms, and on the survival of the host, have been confirmed. Two new species, closely related to M. nigrescens, are described: M. kenyensis and M. tahitiensis, from Africa and Tahiti respectively.


2020 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 11-33
Author(s):  
Leopoldo Ferreira de Oliveira Bernardi ◽  
Robson de Almeida Zampaulo ◽  
Marcus Paulo Alves de Oliveira

A new species of Neocarus is described from adult female and male specimens collected from an epigean and hypogean ferruginous geosystem located in southeast Brazil. The new species, Neocarus simmonsisp. nov., possesses 15–17 ch-type palp setae, nude female pregenital Sternitogenital region, cylindrical ovipositor without setae, and a peculiar variation of setae in the genital and pregenital Sternitogenital region of the male, with smooth and tapering setae and/or barbed and tapering setae and/or stout and ribbed setae. Female genital setae are barbed, tapering and with a thin tip. Aspects of the ecology and life history of these mites are also presented.


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