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Two New Species of Amoeba found in Cockroaches: with Notes on the Cysts of Nyctotherus ovalis Leidy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Catherine L. T. Lucas
Catherine L. T. Lucas
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(from The Department of Protozoology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.)
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During recent investigations on Endamoeba blattae (Bütschli) Leidy of the common cockroach, Blatta orientalis, there were observed in the hindgut of the host, two other distinct amoebic species. Both appear to be truly entozoic, but contrast strikingly with E. blattae both in morphological features and life cycle. They are interesting not only in being among the comparatively few species yet reported from insects, but also in their relationships to certain of the amoebae of vertebrates.

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Parasitology , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , August 1927 , pp. 223 - 235
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1927

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