The rat and its relation to the public health / by various authors ; prepared by direction of the Surgeon-General ; Treasury Department, Public Health and Marine Hospital Service of the United States.

Date:
1910
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    HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA « (Rudolphi, 1819) R. Blanchard, 1891. [Figs. 25 to 30.] Specific diagnosis.—Hymenolepis: Strobila 10 to GO millimeters in length, 2.5 to 4 millimeters in maximum breadth; composed of 800 to 1,300 segments. Head small, almost globular; 200 to 000a in width; rostellum rudimentary, pyriform, only slightly Fig. 26.—Head and ante- rior portion of II. dimi- nuta from the rat. En- larged. (After Zsehokke, 1889, pi. 1, fig. 21.) a Synonyms.— Taenia diminuta Rudolphi, 1819; T. leptocephala Creplin, 1825; Hymenolepis Jlavopunctata Weinland, 1858; Taenia (Hymenolepis) Jlavopunctata Weiii-