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FRESH-WATER BIOLOGY 



75 (76) Strobila broad, lancet-shaped. Ovary and vitellarium ante-poral, 



alongside of testes Drepanidotaenia Railliet 1892. 



Scolex very small, with 8 hooks. Neck wanting. No accessory sac in genital atrium. 



Type species Drepanidotaenia lanceolata (Bloch) 1782. 



Adult in intestine of ducks and geese; cosmopolitan. Bladder-worm in various Cyclopidae 

 and Diaptomus. 



Fig. 746. Drepanidotaenia lanceolata. Transverse section of proglottid; u, uterus; vt, vitellaria; 

 ov, ovary; t, testes; vd, vas deferens; sr, seminal receptacle; v, vagina; magnified. (After Wolffhiigel.) 



76 (75) Strobila slender or even filiform. Ovary and vitellarium ventral to 

 testes or between them 77 



77 (78) Suckers entirely unarmed, or at most armed with hooks on margin 

 only Hymenolcpis Weinland 1858. 



Rostellum well developed, rarely rudimentary 

 or absent. Accessory sac generally wanting in 

 genital atrium. Rarely as abnormality 2, 4, 

 5, or 6 testes in a single proglottid. Chiefly in 

 land and water birds; some species in mam- 

 mals. 



A very large genus; about 50 species occur in 

 aquatic hosts found in North America. Among 

 them a few are definitely reported for North 

 America. H . compressa (Linton) 1892 from the 

 scoter and canvas-back. H. fusus in which 

 Fig. 747. Hymenolcpis megalops. Dorsal view Fuhrmann places Linton's Taenia filum from 



of mature segment (no. 172). Reconstruction from gulls at Yellowstone Lake 



rri°t?ako^%rdSS?.5 ^..,»e,a/.^.describedby Ransom (withother 



genital cloaca; nt, main lateral nerve; sg, shell species from land birds) from the pintail duck; 



gland; /, testis; tm, transverse muscles; tit, uterus; Missouri River, Mo. 



vc, ventral excretory canal; vg. vagina; vs, seminal 



vesicle; vs', seminal vesicle of cirrus-pouch; xpl, 



plexus of excretory vessels; yp, yolk glands. X 90. 



(After Ransom.) 



78 (77) Suckers armed on borders and also in cavity with small booklets; 

 sacculus accessorius always present. 



Echinocotyle Blanchard 1891. 



Rostellum armed with single crown of ten slender hooks with dorsal 

 root and blade about equal in length and ventral root rudimentary. 

 Suckers large, flat, oval, poor in musculature, armed on borders and in 

 middle with several rows of small booklets. Muscular, spinous sacculus 

 accessorius always present. Adults in birds. 



Type species. . Echinocotyle rosseteri'EXainchdiTdiZgi. 



Five species in shore and water birds of Europe. Hosts mostly found I 

 in North America also. 



Fig. 748. Echinocotyle rosseteri. Head with extended rostellum; X 250. 

 (After Blanchard.) 



