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1 February 2007 A NEW GYMNOPHALLID TREMATODE FROM THE INTESTINE OF MICE INFECTED WITH METACERCARIAE FROM THE RAZOR CLAM SINONOVACULA CONSTRICTA
Jong-Yil Chai, Eun-Taek Han, Dongil Choi, Min Seo, Jae-Lip Kim, Sang-Mee Guk, Eun-Hee Shin, Soon-Hyung Lee
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Abstract

Meiogymnophallus sinonovaculae n. sp. (Digenea: Gymnophallidae) is described from metacercariae found in the razor clam, Sinonovacula constricta, in the Republic of Korea, and adults recovered from the small intestine of experimentally infected mice. The worms are characterized by paired clusters of vitelline follicles, a well-developed pars prostatica with abundant prostate cells, a voluminous undivided seminal vesicle (in adults and metacercariae), and large, grouped, domelike sensory papillae on the ventral surface anterior to the ventral sucker (in metacercariae). This new species resembles the type species Meiogymnophallus affinis, but differs in having compact, elliptical, and 4–5-lobed vitellaria, and an excretory vesicle with bicornuated anterior arms reaching to the oral sucker. This is the second documentation of the presence of a species of Meiogymnophallus in the Republic of Korea.

Jong-Yil Chai, Eun-Taek Han, Dongil Choi, Min Seo, Jae-Lip Kim, Sang-Mee Guk, Eun-Hee Shin, and Soon-Hyung Lee "A NEW GYMNOPHALLID TREMATODE FROM THE INTESTINE OF MICE INFECTED WITH METACERCARIAE FROM THE RAZOR CLAM SINONOVACULA CONSTRICTA," Journal of Parasitology 93(1), 132-137, (1 February 2007). https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-829R2.1
Received: 3 January 2006; Accepted: 1 August 2006; Published: 1 February 2007
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