A New Genus of Amphistome (Trematoda) from a Tasmanian Marine Fish

Authors

Harold W. Manter, University of NebraskaFollow
Peter W. Crowcroft, Bureau of Animal Population, Oxford, England

Date of this Version

1950

Citation

Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, v. 17, no.2 (1950)

Comments

Used by permission

Abstract

This paper describes a new genus of trematode collected by the junior author from the intestine of Dactylosargus arctidens Gill (kelp fish) from the southern coast of Tasmania. The trematode is an "amphistome" of unusual interest because of the peculiar character of the acetabulum which possesses a posterior pore as well as a ventral opening.