Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of
Date of this Version
6-1964
Abstract
Strigea gruis sp. n. (Trematoda: Strigeata, Strigeidae) is described from the sandhill crane Grus c. canadensis (L.). Only one other species of Strigea (S. neotidis Bisseru, 1956) is known from birds of the order Gruiformes; it is distinguished from S. gruis by several characteristics including its slender form, campanulate anterior segment, size of pharynx and of eggs, position of ovary, and position and size of testes. S. gruis differs from two other species having a relatively large pharynx, S. sphaerula (Rudolphi, 1803) and S. intermedia Szidat, 1932, both parasites of corvids, in the form of the anterior segment and in details of the genital organs.
Comments
Published in the Journal of Parasitology (June 1964) 50(3, sect. 1): 445-447. Copyright 1964, the American Society of Parasitologists. Used by permission.