Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-94fs2 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-20T02:27:07.619Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Cercaria vaullegeardi Pelseneer, 1906 (Digenea: Hemiuridae); the daughter sporocyst and emergence of the cercaria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

B. F. Matthews
B. F. Matthews
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, Plymouth Polytechnic, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, Devon
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Summary

The daughter sporocyst of Cercaria vaullegeardi has hitherto been regarded as occurring within the haemocoel of the digestive gland of Gibbula umbilicalis. A re-examination has shown that an important part of the sporocyst, previously overlooked, extends from the digestive gland, through the afferent renal vein, the right kidney haemocoel and the transverse pallial vessel into the blood channel within a gill filament, thus providing a means of exit from the host directly into the mantle cavity. The sporocyst is described at light and electron microscope levels, and the emergence of the cystophorous cercariae is discussed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 81 , Issue 1 , August 1980 , pp. 61 - 69
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Arvy, L., (1963). L'infestation cercarienne chez Gibbula umbilicalis Da Costa. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée 38 (5), 783–91.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Charaud, A. G., & Campana-Rottget, Y., (1958). Notes sur le trématode Hémiuride Sterrhurus fusiformis Lühe 1901 et sur sa cercaire (? Cercaria vaullegeardi Pelseneer 1906). Vie et Milieu 10, 168–75.Google Scholar
Dobrovolny, C. G., (1939). Life history of Plagioporus sinilsini Mueller and embryology of new cotylocercous cercariae (Trematoda). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 58, 121–55.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gaillard, J. M., (1953). Sur quelques points d'anatomie et de biologie de Gibbula umbilicalis Da Costa (Mollusque Prosobranche). Bulletin du Laboratoire Maritime de Dinard 39, 1–21.Google Scholar
Imohiosen, E. A. E., (1969). Studies on the biology of larval Digenea from littoral molluscs. Ph.D. Thesis, University College of Wales, Swansea.Google Scholar
James, M., (1973). Ultrastructure and histochemical studies on larval Digenea from marine molluscs. Ph.D. thesis, University College of Wales, Swansea.Google Scholar
Jennings, J. B., & Leflobe, W. B., (1972). The histochemical demonstration of certain aspects of cercarial morphology. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 91 (1), 56–62.Google Scholar
Kagan, I. G., (1952). Further contributions to the life-history of Neoleucochloridium problematicum (Magath, 1921) new comb. (Trematoda: Brachylaemidae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 71, 20–44.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Matthews, R. A., (1974). The life-cycle of Bucephaloides gracilescens (Rudolphi, 1819) Hopkins, 1954 (Digenea: Gasterostomata). Parasitology 68, 1–12.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pantin, C. F. A., (1962). Notes on Microscopical Technique for Zoologists. Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Pelseneer, P., (1906). Trématodes parasites de mollusques marins. Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique 40, 161–86.Google Scholar
Popiel, I., (1976 a). Studies on the ultrastructure and physiology of marine Digenea. Ph.D. thesis, University College of Wales, Swansea.Google Scholar
Popiel, I., (1976 b). Cercaria vaullegeardi Pelseneer 1906, a rare cystophorous cercaria from Gibbula umbilicalis (Da Costa) in Wales. Norwegian Journal of Zoology 24, 137–41.Google Scholar
Popiel, I., & James, B. L., (1978). The ultrastructure of the tegument of the daughter sporocyst of Microphallus similis (Jäg., 1900) (Digenea: Microphallidae). Parasitology 76, 359–67.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Reynolds, B. S., (1963). The use of lead citrate at high pH as an electron opaque stain in electron microscopy. Journal of Cell Biology 17, 208–12.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed