List of entozoa, including pentastomes, from animals dying at the Society's menagerie, between the years 1857-60 inclusive, with descriptions of several new species / by T. Spencer Cobbold, M.D.

  • Thomas Spencer Cobbold
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[1861]
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Credit: List of entozoa, including pentastomes, from animals dying at the Society's menagerie, between the years 1857-60 inclusive, with descriptions of several new species / by T. Spencer Cobbold, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1861.] DR. T. s. cobbold’s list of entozoa. o 6. Distoma boscii, Cobbold. Numerous specimens in the mouth, trachea, and lungs of an Ame- rican species of Coluber, which died from cancer of the stomach. Cab. Coll. T. S. C. no. 70. ^ . Besc. Linn. Trans. 1. c. p. 364. t. 63. f. 6, 7. Synops. Dist. in P. L. S. V. p. 19. 7. Distoma coronarium, Cobbold. Corpus lineare, depressum, retrorsum parutn attenuatum ; collum continuum; caput obconicum; os terminals globosum, limbo echinato, spinis ad numerum 24; acetabulum ore duplo minus, apertura circulari. Long. 1, crassit. unc. Numerous examples from the intestines of an Alligator (^Alligator mississippiensis). Ex. Dec. 25, 1860. Cab. Coll. T. S. C. no. 91. Larval and immature Trematoda. 8. Cercaria cervi. Numerous degenerated examples in the liver of an Axis Deer {Cervus axis). Ex. Feb. 19, 1857. 9. Cercaria macaci. Several specimens in the liver of Macacus radiatus. Ex. Feb. 19, 1857. 10. Cercaria cercopitheci. One example in the liver of the Sooty Monkey {Cercopithecus fuliginosus). Ex. Dec. 4, 1857. Order II. CESTODA. 1. TiENiA pusiLLA, Goeze. A single specimen, upwards of 20 inches in length, in the intestine of a Rat {Mus rattus) destroyed in the Society’s Gardens. Ex. Jan. 7, 1859. 2. T.ENIA PARADOXA, Rudolphi. Numerous examples in the duodenum of the Oyster-catcher {Hcematopus ostralegus, L.). Ex. Feb. 19, 1857. Note. Linn. Trans, xxii. t. 63. f. 16-19. 3. Taenia multiformis, Creplin. Ten or twelve specimens from the small intestines of the Night Heron {Ardea nycticorax). Ex. Jan. 2, 1858.