The Research Bulletin of the Meguro Parasitological Museum No. 5 (July 1971)

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  • On some parasites of a coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae): A new monogenea, Dactylodiscus latimeris n. g., n. sp. (Dactylodiscidae n. fam.) and two larval helminths.
    Sa. Kamegai ----- pp. 1-5
    
    A new species, Dactylodiscus latimeris, which represents a new genus of Monogenea, is described and placed in the proposed new family Dactylodiscidae in Dactylogyroidea Yamaguti, 1963. The parasites were taken on July 2, 1967 from the gills of Latimeria chalumnae caught off Anjouan Island, Comoro on December 20, 1966. The host fish had been preserved in concentrated formalin for seven months before the present examination. This new genus differs from any known family of Dactylogyroidea in having two pairs of sui generis accessory adhesive discs on the opisthohaptor. Two larval helminths, Tentacularia sp. (Cestoda) and Anisakis sp. (Nematoda), were also recovered. The formaer was found in the stomach and the latter in the washings of the body cavity (?).
    
    
  • Review of genus Glossimetra Mehra, 1937 and proposed synonymy of G. tamiansis Dwivedi, 1967 and G. narmadi Dwivedi, 1967 with G. orientalis Mehra, 1937.
    P. N. Sharma & A. N. Gupta ----- pp. 6-13
    
    The taxonomic value of 9 selected morphometrical characters of differnt species of the genus Glossimetra discussed. The occurence of variations in their measurements noticed. The fate of G. tamiansis, G. narmadi created on the basis of such variable characters and their mesurements determined and both decleared synonyms of the genotype. The generic diagnosis is emended.
    
    
  • A new digenetic trematode Procerozoum abei n. g., n. sp. (Didymozoidae), from the body cavity of flying fish from Japan.
    Sh. Kamegai ----- pp. 15-18
    
    Procerozoum abei n. g., n. sp. is described from the body cavity of Cypselurus poecilopterus caught on the Pacific coast of Japan. The present genus is distinguished from the closely related Skrjabinozoum Nikolaeva et Paruchin, 1969 as follows: (1) the shape of the body is filiform without forming a prominent neck portion near the anterior end of the body; (2) the entire body length is decidedly longer (21-35 times length); (3) the testis is single; (4) the receptaculum seminis is absent; and (5) there is nogenital papilla lateroventral to oral sucker.
    
    
  • On some nematodes of birds from India. Part II. Spiruridae and Hedruridae.
    D. S. Jairajpuri & A. H. Siddiqi ----- pp. 21-26
    
    The genus Ascarops belonging to the family Spiruridae has been reported from a carnivore bird, Accipiter badius. This is the first record of this genus from birds. It differs from other species in the absence of a lateral flange and in having 6 pairs of pedunculated papillae. Under the family Hedruridae, two new species Excisa curvata and Viguiera terpsiphonei are reported along with the key to the species of their genera. Excisa curvata n. sp. differs from all the known species in body length, size and ratio of spicules. The presence of sessile papillae at the tip of the tail brings the species closest to E. buckleyi but there being two pairs in the former while four pairs in the latter. Viguiera terpsiphonei n. sp. comes closest to V. leiperi and V. dorsti but differs from both of them in the shape of head and in the number and arrangement of the cloacal papillae. Hadjelia sp. besed on a single male specimen is also reported from India.
    
    
• RESEARCH NOTE
  
  
  • The flame cell pattern of the metacercaria of Pseudogalactosoma macrostoma Yamaguti, 1942 (Heterophyidae).
    N. Suzuki ----- p. 14
    
    
  • A survay on Clonorchis sinensis and some other species of metacercariae in fresh water fishes from Lake Izu-numa, Miyagi Prefecture.
    N. Suzuki & T. Kanno ----- pp. 19-20