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A Re-description of the Female and a Description of the Male Form of the Dioecious Cestode, Gyrocoelia kiewietti Ortlepp, 1937

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2009

D. F. Mettrick
D. F. Mettrick
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
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Amongst cestodes collected from birds in the Lake Kariba district, Southern Rhodesia, was a dioecious species of the genus Gyrocoelia Fuhrmann, 1800, obtained from a darter, Anhinga rufa.

Ortlepp (1037) described, from a single poor specimen, a new species in this genus, which he termed G. kiewietti. Ortlepp thought that his specimen was functionally monoecious, the ovary and vitellaria appearing after the testes had disappeared. Although the present material is definitely functionally dioecious, it is thought that it is the same species as Ortlepp found as the number, size and arrangement of the rostellar hooks are very similar.

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Research Article
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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 36 , Issue 1-2 , March 1962 , pp. 149 - 156
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1962

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