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.] 16. Strongylds acuticaudatus, Cobbold. (PI. XX. f. 5, 6.) Cnput angustcitum ohtusuin, nudutn ; corpus Jlexuosum, conipves- siusculwn; buvso inaris biloba, subtcrwiitiuli, mayiui, lobo sin- gulo (juifKjucrctdicito; cxtrcniitutc cuudctli incivis acuta; cauda fetnincB subulata recta, apice acuminata. Longit. mar. fern. crassit. ^ unc. Numerous examples in the caeca of Chloephaga poliocephala, asso- ciated with the foregoing. 17. Strongylus spiculatus, Cobbold. (PI. XX. f. 7, 8.) Ascaris strongylina, Rudolphi, Dujardin, Diesing. Caput conicum, nudum; corpus cequale, Jlexuosum; bursa maris biloba, lobis Jlabellatim multiradiatis \ extremitate caudali maris longe spiculata, pai'um injiexa ; cauda femince subulata, recta. Longit. mar. et fern. § unc. Numerous specimens in the intestines of a species of Tinamou {Tinamus ?). Ex. Feb. 16, 1859. Natterer found it at Brazil in T. tataupa and Perdix dentata. 18. Ascaris lineata, Cobbold. Caput nudum, conicum; os labiis indistinctis; corpus utrinque eequaliter attenuatum, rectum; extremitate caudali femince obsusata. Longit. 1|, crassit. unc. One female specimen only in the intestines of an Alligator {Alliga- tor mississippiensis), evidently not referable to A. tenuicollis, but probably distinct. Ex. Dec. 25, 1860. Cab. Coll. T. S. C. no. 93. Larval, immature, and doubtful forms of Nematodes. 19. Filaria colubri americani. In a cyst within the walls of the small intestine. Ex. Feb. 20, 1857. 20. Filaria colubri blumenbachii. Enclosed in a cyst in the muscular substance of thejieart. Ex. Jan. 1, 1858. Note. Linn, Trans, xxii. p. 366. t. 63. f. 30. 21. Filaria arde.e nycticoracis (in ovo). I have thought it worth while to notice under this head some very peculiar encysted ova, whose chitinous shell or chorion consists of regularly disposed coils like those described by Claparbde in the ego-s of Ascaris spirotheca, which infests the intestines of Triton tcBniatu?<^. Some genetic relation may subsist here. The cysts were nume- * Claparede, ‘ Be la formation et de la fecondation chez les Vers nematodes ' Geneve, 4to, Ipjy.