ANIMAL PARASITES 123 



SHEEP 

 PROTOZOA: 

 Rhizopoda : 



Endamceba ovis, intestine. 

 Mastigophora : 



Trypanosoma melophagium, blood. 

 Embadomonas ovis, rectum. 

 Sporozoa : 



Babesia motasi, blood. 

 ovis, blood. 

 ser genii, blood. 

 Eimeria faurei, intestine. 



intricata, intestine. 

 Globidium gilruthi, mucosa of stomach. 

 Pneumocystis cornii, lung tissue. 

 Theileria hirci, peripheral blood, liver, and spleen. 

 Infusoria : 



Balantidium sp., intestine. 



PLATYHELMINTHES : 

 Trematoda : 



Dicrocailium dendriticum, liver. 

 Fasciola hepatica, liver. 

 Fascioloides magna, liver. 

 Cestoda : 



Echinococcus granulosus, cystic stage in all organs. 

 Monezia expansa, intestine. 



pianissimo, intestine. 

 Tamia hydatigena, cystic stage attached to abdominal viscera. 



ovis, cystic stage in muscles and on surface of various organs of 



viscera. 

 Thysanosoma actinoides, intestine. 

 Multiceps multiceps, cystic stage in central nervous system. 



NEMATHELMINTHES : 

 Nematoda : 



Bunostomum trigonocephalum, intestine. 



Diclyocaulus filaria, bronchi, bronchioles. 



Hazmonchus contortus, stomach. 



Nematodirus spathiger, intestine. 



Proleracrum columbianum, larvae in nodules on small and large intestines, 



adults in large intestine. 

 Synthetocaulus rufescens, bronchioles and lung tissue. 

 Trichuris (Trichocephalus) ovis, caecum, large intestine. 



References 



Andrews, J. M., 1926. Coccidiosis in mammals. Am.Jour.Hyg., 6 (6): 



784-798. 

 Baylis, H. A., 1922. Observations on certain cestodes of rats with an 



account of a new species of Hymenolepis. Parasitology, 14 : 415-419. 



