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On the Ecology of an Adult Digenetic Trematode Proctoeces Subtenuis From a Lamellibranch Host Scrobicularia Plana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

I. C. White
I. C. White
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Comparative Physiology, Queen Mary College, University of London
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Typically, adult digenetic trematodes are found as parasites of vertebrates, but Freeman & Llewellyn (1958) described sexually mature, unencysted digeneans from the kidney region of the mud-dwelling lamellibranch Scrobicularia plana (da Costa) collected from Chalkwell, near Southend-on-Sea, in the Thames estuary. The trematodes were identified as belonging to the genus Proctoeces (Odhner, 1911) and of the family Fellodistomatidae, subfamily Haplocladinae (Odhner, 1911). Freeman and Llewellyn considered that the features exhibited by the specimens were consistent with the description for Proctoeces subtenuis (Linton, 1907) Hanson, 1950, a species which had been recorded up until that date only as a parasite of the hind gut of marine teleosts belonging to the families Labridae and Sparidae from the Red Sea, New Zealand and the eastern seaboard of America.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , May 1972 , pp. 457 - 467
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1972

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