On a leech (Trocheta subviridis, Dutroch.) found in the viscera of a Moluccan deer (Cervus moluccensis, Müller) / by James Murie.

  • Murie, James.
Date:
[1865]
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Credit: On a leech (Trocheta subviridis, Dutroch.) found in the viscera of a Moluccan deer (Cervus moluccensis, Müller) / by James Murie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    son's ' Catalogue of Worms in the British Museum/ already referred to, fault is found that Trocheta is given therein as the generic term, whereas the writer considers that Trochetia is proper. But the critic himself is in reality at fault, as I find that Dutrochet named the genus Trocheta in his paper. Bull. Phil. 1817, while Lamarck a year later alters this to Trochetia, An. sans Vert. 1818.
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