WORMS. INTESTINA. 8. Echinorhynchus. 25 



minsi Head opake: inteftine black. 



Mull. tool. Dan. 2. tab. 42. fig. I--I2. 



Goeze Einge-tu. p. 137. tab. 9. B.fig. 10, II. 



Inhabits the ftomach of the jr7or/£, in great numbers. 



Male pale yellow with a fine yellowifh membrane cohering the 

 inteftines, tail 3 -leaved with a fmall fpine or two: female witk 

 white filiform veftcles furrounding the inteftines. 



nnu$. Found in the inteftines of fheep. 



O. Fdbr. aj>* Mutl. Zool. Dan, 2. if. 8. 



8. ECHINORYNCHUS. Body round: j&r*- 

 ^g/fe^f cylindrical retractile, and crowned 

 with hooked prickles. 



.Thefe are found fixed very firmly to the vifcera of various ani- 

 mals, generally the inteftines ; arid often remain on the fame 

 fpot during the whole life of the animal : they are moftly 

 gregarious, and are eafily diftingujihed from the lamia by 

 their round inarticulate body. 



A. Infeftlrig the Mamrhalla. 



<tcte> Body pale: inteftine milk-white and fpiral. 

 Mull. Zool. Dan. 2, tab. 74. Jig. I. 

 Found in great numbers in the inteftines of the harp and rough 



Seal, -and often nearly devours them: from 3 inches and a 



half to 8 inches long. 

 Body pellucid membranaceous, tapering both ways, and pointed 



and hooked behind. 



bifer. Body whitifh glabrous and tapering behind into a fine 

 hair. 

 Mull. Zool, Dari. 2. tab. 7$-fig> 2. 

 In the ftomach of the harp Ssal i about an inch long.- 



fas. Clear white : neck 6 : pTobofcis fheathed, with numerous 

 rows of hooked prickles: orifices of fuclion 7. 



Gceze Einge<w. p. ^43. tab* U.fig- 1—6. 



Block Eingcw. p. 26 tab. J.fg. I --8. 



Pallas cemm. Petrop. 19. p. 202. tab. II jig; j, 



Found in the inteftines of Swine* efpecially thofe which have 

 been fattened in fties: is gregarious and from 12 inches to 

 1 and a half feet long, the filaments of the probofcis appear as 

 if uoired by 2 lateral ligaments. That which is found in the 

 Bsar is more of a blueifh call. 



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