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On Two New Species of Lytocestus from Burma and the Sudan Respectively*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2009

Jean A. Lynsdale
Jean A. Lynsdale
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From the Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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The sub-family Lytocestinae was created by Hunter (1927) to accommodate five genera—Lytocestus Cohn, 1908 (type genus), Balanotaenia Johnston, 1924, Monobothrioides Fuhrmann and Baer, 1925, Djombangie Bovien, 1926, and Lytocestoides Baylis, 1928. He based the characteristics of the sub-family on the broad characters of the type genus, e.g. “Sub-family Lytocestinae Hunter, 1927. Sub-family diagnosis: Caryophyllaeidae with sexual apertures and ovary situated in the last quarter of the body length. The inner longitudinal muscles lie entirely internal to the vitellaria which are annularly arranged about the muscles in the cortical parenchyma. Uterine glands are present. Type genus Lytocestus Cohn, 1908.” All the foregoing characteristics are present in Lytocestus. Sub-sequently, two more genera, Khawia Hsu, 1935, and Stocksia Woodland, 1937 have been added, making a total of seven genera.

According to Woodland (1926) the genus Lytocestus includes the following species: L. adhaerens Cohn, 1908 (type species), L. filiformis (Woodland, 1923), L. chalmersius (Woodland, 1924), L. cunningtoni (Fuhrmann and Baer, 1925), L. indicus (Moghe, 1925), and Balanotaenia bancrofti Johnston, 1924.

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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 30 , Issue 2-3 , October 1956 , pp. 87 - 96
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1956

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