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On the Identity of the Kidney Worm of Pigs in New South Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

T. W. M. Cameron  and
I. Clunies Ross
T. W. M. Cameron
Affiliation:
(Research Assistant in Agricultural Helminthology, London School of Tropical Medicine)
I. Clunies Ross
Affiliation:
(Walter and Eliza Hall Veterinary Research Fellow, University of Sydney)
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In 1839 Diesing described Stephanurus dentatus from the kidney of the pig. His description was incorrect in two important particulars, viz.— in stating that only one spicule was present and that the vulva was in the middle of the body instead of posteriorly. These errors, although corrected by Verril in 1870 and Louise Taylor in 1899, still persist, and it was on account of this that Drabble, in 1922, basing his diagnosis on a faulty text-book description, claimed that the Kidney worm of swine in New South Wales was generally distinct from Stephanurus dentatus. This worm he called Sclerostomum renium, n. sp.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Helminthology , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , July 1924 , pp. 149 - 150
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1924

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