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On Camallanus johni sp. nov., collected from Xenopus in Tanganyika Territory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2009

Yeh Liang-Sheng
Yeh Liang-Sheng
Affiliation:
Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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A number of male and female specimens were available for study. They were collected by my colleague Mr. J. McClelland who very kindly made them available for study.

Description: The worm is very small with the largest diameter at the cephalic end and tapers down posteriorly and rather markedly so in the female worm (Fig. 4). The cuticle has fine striations. The bivalve buccal capsule has a number of longitudinal ridges of varying lengths. The number of these ridges are different for the male and female. The head is slightly tilted ventrad. There is a pair of tridents. The ventral trident is small and indistinctly branched. The dorsal trident is large and clearly trifid. The posterior part of the buccal capsule ends in six small projections (Fig. 1).

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Research Article
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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 34 , Issue 1-2 , August 1960 , pp. 103 - 106
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1960

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