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A Study of the Gastrodiscinae Monticelli, 1892 (Gastrodiscidae: Paramphistomoidea)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2009
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All three genera of the Gastrodiscinae, namely, Gastrodiscus Leuckart, 1877, Homalogaster Poirier, 1883 and Gastrodiscoides Leiper, 1913 are shown to lack a true pars prostatica and cirrus pouch. The two last-mentioned have some part of the male ducts provided with cilia and all three possess papillae on the ventral surface; these papillae are demonstrated to have a very different structure in each of the three genera. These and the male ducts are described and the subfamily Gastrodiscinae and the genus Gastrodiscoides are redefined.
Gastrodiscoides hominis is recorded from a Rhesus monkey.
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