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Distribution. — North America (United States), Europe (France, 

 Germany, Italy, Russia, and Spain), Africa (Dahomey), Asia 

 (India, Russian Turkestan), South America (Brazil), and Australia. 

 Probably a cosmopolitan species. 



ASCARIDIA COMPAR (Schrank, 1790) Travassos, 1913 



Synonyms. — Ascaris corn-par Schrank, 1790; Heterakis compar 

 (Schrank, 1790) Stossich, 1887; Ascaris lagopodis Froelich, 1802. 



Hosts. — Caccabis chucar, C. saxatilis, Colinus virginianus, Coturnix 

 communis, G. dactylisonans, Gallus gallus, Numida meleagris, Ortyx 

 virginianus, Perdix cinerea, Tetrao lag opus, T. tetrix, T . urogallus. 



Location. — Small intestine. 



Morphology. — Ascaridia (p. 77) : White worms, comparatively 

 thick but thinning posteriorly. Mouth with 3 rounded lips, each 

 bearing a central papilla. Esophagus 1/14 of total length. 



Male 36 to 48 mm. long. Tail 1/66.3 of total length, straight and 

 obliquely truncated. Tail cordate. Sucker oval, 340/x, by 300/i. 

 Nine pairs of papillae (fig. 120) , of which 4 are preanal (2 being near 

 the sucker and 2 just anterior to cloacal aperture) and 5 are postanal. 



Female 84 to 96 mm. long. Tail 1/65 of total body length. Eggs 

 91/* long by 57/* wide, according to Linstow ; 80/* by 60/t, according to 

 Mueller. 



Life history. — Probably similar to that of A. galli (p. 82). 



Distribution. — North America (United States), Asia (Philippines, 

 India and Formosa), Europe (England, Germany, Italy), and 

 Australia. Reported from the quail in Florida by Leidy. 



ASCARIDIA COMPRESSA (Schneider, 1866) Railliet and Henry, 1912 



Synonym. — Heterakis compressa Schneider, 1866. 



Host. — Gallus gallus. 



Location. — Small intestine. 



Morphology. — Ascaridia (p. 77) : Large worms. Mouth with 3 

 lips, the lips dissimilar (presumably the dorsal lip larger than the 

 2 submedian) and each lip having a larger median lobe and 2 smaller 

 lateral lobes. 



Male 53 mm. long. 



Female 85 mm. long. 



Life history. — Probably similar to that of A. galli (p. 82). 



Distribution. — Australia. 



ASCARIDIA CORDATA (Linstow, 1906) Railliet and Henry, 1914 



Synonym. — Heterakis cordata Linstow, 1906c. 

 Host. — Callipepla sguamata. 

 Location. — Intestine. 



