Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-94fs2 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-12T21:40:46.646Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

On some Filariae Parasitic in Surinam Mammals, with the Description of Filariopsis asper n.g., n.sp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

P. H. van Thiel
P. H. van Thiel
Affiliation:
Institute of Tropical Medicine and Laboratory of Comparative Pathology and Parasitology, University of Leyden.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Although our knowledge of Filariae parasitic in animals is continually increasing, the main source of information concerning this group remains still confined to the important monographs by Molin (1858) and Stossich (1898). Molin's descriptions of worms are, however, often so incomplete that in using them as a basis of classification Diesing failed in his attempt to subdivide the genus Filaria, whilst Stossich's descriptions are scarcely better than those of Molin. Stiles has already pointed out the absence of clear and definite characters for the subgenus Filaria of which Filaria martis Gmelin is the type-species. Before any new division of the genus Filaria is proposed the writer thinks it is advisable to re-investigate the already known species and to re-describe them more carefully, laying special stress on such characters as the structure of the female genital organs and the structure of the microfilariae. The knowledge of Filariae parasitic in animals will be of great help in identification of worms parasitic in man.

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 1926 , pp. 128 - 136
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1926

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Diesing, K. M. (1861). Revision der Nematoden. Sitz. ber. d. Kais. Akad. d. Wissensch. XLII. 595.Google Scholar
Dujardin, M. F. (1845). Histoire naturelle des Helminthes ou Vers Intestinaux. Paris.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Linstow, O. von (1899). Nematoden aus der Berliner Zoologischen Sammlung. Mitt. a. d. Zool. Samml, d. Mus. f. Naturkunde in Berlin, I. 22.Google Scholar
Looss, A. (1904). Zur Kenntniss des Bauea der Filaria loa Guyot. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. XX. 549.Google Scholar
Molin, R. (1858). Versuch einer Monographie der Filarien. Sits. ber. d. Kais. Akad. d. Wissensch. XXVIII. 365.Google Scholar
Ortlepp, B. J. (1924). On a collection of Helminths from Dutch Guiana. Journ. of Helminthology, II. 15.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stiles, Ch. W. (1907). The zoological characters of the round-worm genus Filaria Mueller, 1787, with a list of the thread worms reported for man. Hygienic Laboratory, Bull. No. 34. Washington.Google Scholar
Stossich, M. (1898). Filarie e Spiroptere. Lavoro monografico. Boll. d. Soc. Adriat. d. Sc. nat. in Trieste, XVIII.Google Scholar