GLOBIDIUM 



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Mammals — Continued . 

 S. pitymysi 

 S. sp. 

 S. cameli 

 8. richardi 

 8. sp. 

 8. S]). 



8. aucheniw 

 8. gazeUce 

 8. Icortei 



8. (jyaciJi.^ 

 8. monh'i 

 8. CHiiicali 

 8. darlingi 

 8. hubalis 

 8. woodJioHsei 



Birds: 



8. rilei/i 



8. hoyrdthi 



S. falcatula 



8. sp. 



8. turdi 



8. coin 



8. setophagce 



8. aramidis 



8. ammodromi 



Lizards: 



8. platydaetyli 

 8. gongyli 



Splendore, 1918 

 Krause, 1863 

 Mason, 1910 

 Hadweii, 1922 

 Hadweii, 1922 

 Hadweu, 1922 

 Brumpt, 1913 

 Balfour, 1913 

 Castellani and Chalmers, 



19(19 

 Von Ratz, 191)8 

 Xeveu-Lcniaire. 1912 

 Brumpt, 1913 

 Brumpt, 1913 

 Dooiel, 1916 

 Dogiel, 1916 



utiles, 1893 

 Von Eatz, 1908 

 .Stiles, 1893 

 Barrows, 1883 

 Brumpt, 1913 

 Fantham, 1913 

 Crawley, 1914 

 Splendore, 1907 

 Splendore, 1907 



Field vole {Pitymys savii) 



Do,2;, cat 



Camel 



Seal {Phoca richardi) 



Reindeer 



Caribou 



Llama 



Gasella rufifrons 



Macacus rhesus 



Deer 

 Goat 

 Rabbit 

 Opossum 

 Bubalis cokei 

 Gazella grant i 



Duck 

 Chicken 



Uabia ludoviciana 

 Parula piUayiim i 

 Merula merula 

 Colixs ciiithinitidon 

 8etoph,ni„ lulirilh, 

 Aram ides sardrnra 

 Ammodromus manimhe 



(Bertram, 1892 Gecko {Platydactylus facetanus) 



\Cliatton and Avel, 1923 Gecko {Tarentola mauritanica) 

 Trinci. 1911 Govgylns ocellatus 



Globidium Flesch, 1884. 



These parasites, which are probably related to the Sarcosporidia, have 

 the form of spherical cysts up to 5 millimetres in diameter embedded in the 

 mucosa of the alimentary canal or skin of mammals (Fig. 331, i). Each 

 is enclosed by a membranous capsule, and when fully grown consists of 

 groups of spores which resemble those of the Sarcosporidia. 



Flesch (1883) was the first to discover one of these parasites in the small 

 intestine of the horse. He (1884, 1884a) gave it the name Globidium 

 leuckarti. This species was rediscovered by Hobmaier (1922), and has 

 been studied by Kupke (1923). Blanchard (1885) saw a similar parasite 

 in a kangaroo and, believing it to be related to the Sarcosporidia, named it 

 Sarcocystis tniicosce. Moussu and Marotel (1902) observed a form in the 

 sheep, and regarded it as a developmental stage of the coccidium, Eimeria 

 faurei. It was studied by Gilruth (1910), and in the same year by Chatton 

 (1910), who named it Gastrocystis gilruthi. A similar parasite was discovered 

 in the subcutaneous tissue and muscles of a cow by Besnoit and Kobin 

 (1912), according to wdiom it was named *S'. hesnoiti by Marotel in 1912. 

 Franco and Borges (1916), who studied this organism, came to the conclusion 



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