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A Supplementary Description of Lytocestus indicus Moghe (Syn. Caryophyllaeus indicus Moghe 1925. Cestoda)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

M. A. Moghe
M. A. Moghe
Affiliation:
From the Zoology Department, College of Science, Nagpur, C.P., India.
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Since I published (1925) a description of this interesting new species of a Caryophyllaeid, Woodland (1926) has suggested that the bodies which I described as post-ovarian vitellaria (1925, p. 233, fig. 2, p.ov.vit.) are in reality ovarian follicles, and that, therefore, the worm is a Lytocestus and not Caryophyllaeus. Southwell in his papers (1928 and 1930) has embodied my original description of this worm and has concluded the description by referring to Woodland's remark regarding the post-ovarian vitellaria, without definitely assigning the species to the genus Lytocestus. With additional material at my disposal, it was possible to re-examine its anatomy, and I have found that the bodies described and figured by me as post-ovarian vitellaria are in reality ovarian follicles. I also take this opportunity of publishing a more complete and, I hope, a more accurate description of its general anatomy.

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Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , January 1931 , pp. 84 - 87
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1931

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