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On Cestodes collected in Burma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

F. J. Meggitt
F. J. Meggitt
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(University of Rangoon.)
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A single specimen 141 long, 3 broad. Genital pore in centre of proglottis margin, vaginal pore posterior to cirrus sac. Testes approximately 100, in a broad band posterior to female glands and extending laterally to excretory vessels: between ovaries testes extend more anteriorly and are in six transverse rows. Cirrus sac 0·31–0·56 x 0·04–0·06 long, extending just past excretory vessels, containing a small vesicula seminalis. Ovaries practically touching the respective excretory vessels. Vitelline gland rather aporal and posterior to ovary. Gravid segments absent.

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Parasitology , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , August 1927, pp. 141 - 153
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1927

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