WORMS. INTESTINA. 8. Echinorhynchus. 
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Head opakei intbftine black. 
Mull. Zdol. Dan. 2. tab. 42. fig. I — IZ'. 
Goeze Eingenv. p. 137. tab. 9. B.fig. 10, ll. 
Inhabits the ftomach of the bkrfe, in great numbers, 
Male pale yellow with a fine yellowilh membrane covering the 
inteftines, tail 3-leaved with a fmall fpine or two: female with 
white filiform veficlcs furrounding the intellinCs. 
Found in the inteftines of flieep. 
0 . Fabr. ap. Mull. Zool. Dan, 2. p, 8i 
8. ECIimORYNCPIUS. Body round: pro- 
hojcis cjluidrical rctradtile, and crowned 
with hooked piickjes. 
Thefe are found fixed very firmly to the vifcera of various ani- 
mals, generally the intelhnes ; and dhen ren ain on the fame 
fpot during the whole life of the animal : they are mollly 
gregarious, and are eafily diftinguilhed from the Feenia by 
their round inarticulate body. 
A. tnfefling the Mammalia. 
Body pale: inteftlne milk-white aiid Ipiral. 
Mull. Zool. Dan. 2. tab. J^.fg. 1. 
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 1 ong. 
Body pellucid membranaceous, tapering both ways, and pointed 
and hooked behind. 
Body whitilli glabrouS and tapering behind into a fine 
hair. 
Mull. Zool, Dan. 2. tab. 2. 
In the ftomach of the harp Seal : about an inch long. 
Clear white: neck o: probofeis ftieathed, with numerous 
TOW s of hooked prickles ; otifices of futftion 7. 
Geeze Eiugew. p. 143 tab W.Jig I --6. 
Bloch Einge'W. p. 26 tab. J.jig. I --8 
Fallas comm. Pehop. 19./. 202. lab It Jig. 3. 
Found in the inteftines of Sneine, elp cially thofe which have 
been fattened in fties : is gregarious and from J 2 inches to 
I and a halt feet long, the filaments of the orobofeis appear as 
if uailed by 2 lateral ligaments. That which is fotind in the 
Boar is more of d bliicilh call. 
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