Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-t7czq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-28T05:20:53.678Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Observations on the Morphology and Life Cycle of Neodiplostomum intermedium (Trematoda: Diplostomatidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

J. C. Pearson
J. C. Pearson
Affiliation:
Department of Parasitology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

1. Neodiplostomum intermedium Pearson is recorded from four new hosts; as an adult from the water rat, Hydromys chrysogaster Geoffroy, and as a metacercaria (diplostomulum), from tadpole and adult of an undescribed tree frog, Hyla sp., tadpole of (Hyla latopalmata (Günther) Mixophyes fasciolatus Günther and frog of an unidentified leptodactylid.

2. The life cycle of Neodiplostomum intermedium was followed experimentally; the hosts were: Pettancylus assimilis (Petterd), a fresh-water limpet, as first intermediate host; tadpole of Hyla pearsoni Copland as second intermediate host; Hyla caerulea (Shaw) a tree frog, and Hemisphaerodon gerrardi Peters, the pinktongued skink, as paratenic hosts; and Rattus assimilis (Gould) and laboratory rats as definitive hosts.

3. Descriptions are given of the morphology of the miracidium, mother sporocyst, daughter sporocyst, cercaria, and diplostomulum, with special reference to the structure of the miracidium and of the cercarial tail.

4. Observations are given on the embryology of the miracidium, hatching of the egg, transformation of the miracidium into the mother sporocyst with special reference to the germinal cells, the route and manner of escape of cercariae from the snail host, the development of the diplostomulum with special reference to the reserve excretory system, and the movements of diplostomula during metamorphosis of the tadpole host.

5. The haploid chromosome number is ten, as determined from squashes of testes. One paratype and a series of experimental adults have been compared with and found different from Neodiplostomum (Fibricola) sarcophilus n.comb. The orthography and formal proposing of the names of the species of Fibricola transferred to Neodiplostomum by Pearson (1959b) are corrected.

The writer wishes to thank Dr M. J. Mackerras, Queensland Institute for Medical Research, for generously supplying water rats; Professor J. F. A. Sprent, University of Queensland Veterinary School, for his criticism of the manuscript; Mr K. Webber and his sons for their assistance in catching rats and for permission to collect snails, frogs and tadpoles from their streams; and Mr R. J. Ballantyne for technical assistance. This study was supported by a grant from the Rural Credits Fund of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 51 , Issue 1-2 , May 1961 , pp. 133 - 172
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1961

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

REFERENCES

Anderson, R. C. (1958). Méthode pour l'examen des Nématodes en vue apicale. Ann. Parasit. 33, 171–2.Google Scholar
Anderson, D. J. & Cable, R. M. (1950). Studies on the life history of Linstowiella szidati (Anderson) (Trematoda: Strigeatoidea: Cyathocotylidae). J. Parasit. 36, 395–408.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Braun, M. (1892). Vermes in Bronn's Klass. u. Ordnung. Thier-Reichs, v. 4, Abt. 1a, 561–816.Google Scholar
Bearup, A. J. (1956). Life cycle of Austrobilharzia terrigalensis Johnston, 1917. Parasitology, 46, 470–9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bosma, N. J. (1934). The life history of the trematode Alaria mustelae, sp.nov. Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 53, 116–53.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brooks, F. G. (1948). Larval trematode parasites of Carrol Lake snails. Mimeographed rept. Biol. Div. Wisconsin Conserv. Dept. and Dept. Zool. Univ. Wisconsin.Google Scholar
Cable, R. M. & Crandall, R. B. (1956). Larval stages and phylogeny as exemplified by the lung fluke of turtles. Science, 124, 890.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chandler, A. C. (1942). The morphology and life cycle of a new strigeid, Fibricola texensis, parasitic in raccoons. Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 61, 156–67.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chen, Pin-Dji (1937). The germ cell cycle in the trematode, Paragonimus kellicotti Ward. Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 56, 208–36.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chu, G. W. T. C. & Cutress, C. E. (1954). Austrobilharzia variglandis (Miller & Northrup, 1926) Penner, 1953 (Trematoda: Schistosomatidae) in Hawaii with notes on its biology. J. Parasit. 40, 515–24.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ciurea, I. (1930). Contributions à l'étude morphologique et biologique de quelques strigéidés des oiseaux ichtyophages de la faune de Roumaine. Arch. roum. Path. Exp. Microbiol. 3, 277–323.Google Scholar
Cort, W. W. (1919). Notes on the eggs and miracidia of the human schistosomes. Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. 18, 509–19.Google Scholar
Cort, W. W., Ameel, D. J. & van der Woude, A. (1951). Early developmental stages of strigeid mother sporocysts. Proc. Helminth. Soc. Wash. 18, 5–9.Google Scholar
Cort, W. W. & Brackett, S. (1938 a). A new strigeid cercaria which produces a bloat disease of tadpoles. J. Parasit. 24, 263–71.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cort, W. W. & Brackett, S. (1938 b). Two new species of strigeid cercariae in Stagnicola palustris elodes (Say) from the Douglas Lake region, Michigan. Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 57, 274–81.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cuckler, A. C. (1940). The life cycle of Fibricola cratera (Barker & Noll, 1915), Dubois, 1932 (Trematoda: Strigeata). J. Parasit. 26 (Suppl.), 32–33.Google Scholar
Cuckler, A. C. (1941). Morphological and biological studies on certain strigeid trematodes of mammals. Ph.D. Theses, Univ. Minn.Google Scholar
Cuckler, A. C. (1949). Morphological and biological studies on certain strigeid trematodes of mammals. Summ. Ph.D. Theses. Univ. Minn. 4, 45–7.Google Scholar
Dubois, G. (1938). Monographie des Strigeida (Trematoda). Mém. Soc. neuchâtel. Sci. nat. 6, 535.Google Scholar
Dubois, G. (1944). A propos de la spécificité parasitaire des Strigeida. Bull. Soc. neuchâtel. Sci. nat. 69, 1–103.Google Scholar
Dubois, G. (1953). Systématique des Strigeida—Complément de la Monographie. Mém. Soc. neuchâtel. Sci. nat. 8, 141 pp.Google Scholar
Dubois, G. & Rausch, R. (1950). Troisième contribution à l'étude des Strigeides (Trematoda) Nord-Américains. Bull. Soc. neuchâtel. Sci. nat. 73, 19–50.Google Scholar
Duke, B. O. L. (1952). On the route of emergence of the cercariae of Schistosoma mansoni from Australorbis glabratus. J. Helminth. 26, 133–46.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Erasmus, D. A. (1958). Studies on the morphology, biology and development of a strigeid cercaria (Cercaria X Baylis 1930). Parasitology, 48, 312–35.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Faust, E. C. & Hoffman, W. A. (1934). Studies on schistosomiasis mansoni in Puerto Rico. III. Biological studies. Puerto Rico J. Publ. Hlth. & Trop. Med. 10, 1–47.Google Scholar
Faust, E. C. & Meleney, H. E. (1924). Studies on schistosomiasis japonica. Amer. J. Hyg. Monogr. Ser. 3, 339.Google Scholar
Haswell, W. A. (1903). On two remarkable sporocysts occurring in Mytilus latus, on the coast of New Zealand. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 1902, Part 4, 497–515.Google Scholar
Hoffman, G. L. (1955). Notes on the life cycle of Fibricola cratera (Trematoda: Strigeida). J. Parasit. 41, 327.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hoffman, G. L. (1958). Experimental infection with strigeoid cercariae. J. Parasit. 44, 229.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hugghins, E. J. (1954 a). Life history of a strigeid trematode, Hysteromorpha triloba (Rudolphi, 1819) Lutz, 1931. I. Egg and miracidium. Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 73, 1–15.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hugghins, E. J. (1954 b). Life history of a strigeid trematode, Hysteromorpha triloba (Rudolphi, 1819) Lutz, 1931. II. Sporocyst through adult. Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 73, 221–35.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hughes, R. C. (1927). Studies on the trematode family Strigeidae (Holostomidae), no. VI. A new metacercaria, Neascus ambloblitis, sp.nov. representing a new larval group. Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 46, 248–67.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hughes, R. C. (1928). Studies on the trematode family Strigeidae (Holostomidae), no. IX. Neascus van-cleavi (Agersborg). Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 47, 320–41.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hughes, R. C. (1929 a). Studies on the trematode family Strigeidae (Holostomidae), no. XIV. Two new species of Diplostomula. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. no. 202, 1–29.Google Scholar
Hughes, R. C. (1929 b). Studies on the trematode family Strigeidae (Holostomidae), no. XIX. Diplostomulum scheuringi sp.nov. and D. vegrandis (La Rue). J. Parasit. 15, 267–71.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hughes, R. C. & Berkhout, P. G. (1929). Studies on the trematode family Strigeidae (Holostomidae) no. XV. Diplostomulum gigas, sp.nov. Pap. Mich. Acad. Sci. 10, 483–88.Google Scholar
Hunter, G. W. & Hamilton, J. M. (1941). Studies on host-parasite reactions to larval parasites. IV. The cyst of Uvulifer ambloplitis (Hughes). Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 60, 498–507.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hunter, G. W. & Hunter, W. S. (1935). Further studies on fish and bird parasites. (In ‘A biological survey of the Mohawk-Hudson watershed’) 23 Ann. Rep. N.Y. State Conservation Dept. (1934). Suppl., pp. 267–83.Google Scholar
Hunter, G. W. & Hunter, W. S. (1940). Studies on the development of the metacercaria and the nature of the cyst of Posthodiplostomum minimum (MacCallum 1921) (Trematoda, Strigeata). Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 59, 52–63.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hyman, L. H. (1951). The Invertebrates: Platyhelminthes and Rhynchocoela. The Acoelomate Bilateria. Vii+550 pp. New York: McGraw-Hill.Google Scholar
Ishii, Y. (1934). Studies on the development of Fasciolopsis buski. Part I. Development of the eggs outside the host. (Japanese text.) Taiwan Igakkwai Zasshi, Taihoku, 33, 349–78, (English summary, Suppl. pp. 29–30.)Google Scholar
Kendall, S. B. & McCullough, F. S. (1951). The emergence of the cercariae of Fasciola hepatica from the snail Limnaea truncatula. J. Helminth. 25, 77–92.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
La Rue, G. R. (1917). Two new larval trematodes from Thamnophis marciana and Thamnophis eques. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. no. 35, 12 pp.Google Scholar
La Rue, G. R. (1957). The classification of digenetic Trematoda. Exp Parasit. 6, 306–344.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Leigh, W. H. (1954). Notes on the life history of Fibricola texensis Chandler, 1942, in Florida. J. Parasit. 40, 45.Google Scholar
von Linstow, O. F. B. (1877). Enthelminthologica. Arch. Naturgesch. 43, 173–98.Google Scholar
Lynch, J. E. (1933). The miracidium of Heronimus chelydrae MacCallum. Quart. J. Micr. Sci. 76, 13–33.Google Scholar
Maldonado, J. R. (1945). The life history and biology of Platynosomum fastosum Kossak, 1910 (Trematoda: Dicrocoeliidae). Ciclo vital y biologia del Platynosomum fastosum Kossak, 1910 (Trematodos: Dicrocoeliidae). (English and Spanish texts.) Puerto Rico J. Pub. Hlth & Trop. Med. 21, 17–60.Google Scholar
Martin, W. E. (1945). Two new species of marine cercariae. Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 64, 203–12.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mathias, P. (1925). Recherches expérimentales sur le cycle évolutif de quelques trématodes. Bull. Biol. 59, 1–123.Google Scholar
Mattes, O. (1949). Wirtsfindung, Invasionsvorgang und Wirtsspezifität beim Fasciolamiracidium. Z. Parasitenk. 14, 320–63.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Miller, H. M. (1926). Comparative studies on furcocercous cercariae. Illinois Biol. Monogr. 10, 112.Google Scholar
Nicoll, W. (1912). On two new larval trematodes from the striped snake (Tropidonotus ordinatus sirtalis). Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 4, 767–70.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Odlaug, T. O. (1940). Morphology and life history of the trematode, Alaria intermedia. Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 59, 490–510.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Olivier, L. (1940). Life history studies on two strigeid trematodes of the Douglas Lake region, Michigan. J. Parasit. 26, 447–77.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Olivier, L. (1942). Four new species of strigeid cercariae from northern Michigan and the metacercaria of one of them. Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 61, 168–79.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Olivier, L. & Cort, W. W. (1942). An experimental test of the life cycle described for Cotylurus communis (Hughes). J. Parasit. 28, 75–81.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ozaki, Y. (1952). Epidermal structure of the miracidium of Schistosoma japonicum (Katsurada). Ann. Zool. Jap. 25, 343–51.Google Scholar
Park, P. J. (1936). The miracidium of Neodiplostomum lucidum La Rue and Bosma. Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 55, 49–54.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pearson, J. C. (1956). Studies on the life cycles and morphology of the larval stages of Alaria arisaemoides Augustine and Uribe, 1927 and Alaria canis La Rue and Fallis, 1936 (Trematoda: Diplostomidae). Canad. J. Zool. 34, 295–387.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pearson, J. C. (1959 a). Observations on the morphology and life cycle of Strigea elegans Chandler & Rausch, 1947 (Trematoda: Strigeidae). J. Parasit. 45, 155–74.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pearson, J. C. (1959 b). Neodiplostomum intermedium n.sp. from the allied rat, Rattus assimilis, with remarks on the genera Neodiplostomum and Fibricola (Trematoda: Diplostomatidae). Parasitology, 49, 111–20.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pearson, J. C. (1960). On the life cycle of Neodiplostomum buteonis and the occurrence of a periprostate (Trematoda: Diplostomatidae). J. Parasit. 46, 48.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Penner, L. R. (1938). A strigeid of the genus Neodiplostomum which develops in laboratory rats from a Diplostomulum metacercaria in the muscles of Rana sphenocephala. J. Parasit. 24 (Suppl.), 26–7.Google Scholar
Penner, L. R. & Wagner, A. (1956). Concerning the early developmental stages of Ornithobilharzia canaliculata (Rudolphi, 1819). J. Parasit. 42, 37–8.Google Scholar
Pieper, M. B. (1953). The life history and germ cell cycle of Spirorchis artericola (Ward, 1921). J. Parasit. 39, 310–25.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Porter, A. (1938). The larval trematoda found in certain South African mollusca with special reference to schistosomiasis (bilharziasis). Publ. S. Afr. Inst. Med. Res. 8, 492.Google Scholar
Price, H. F. (1931). Life history of Schistosomatium douthitti (Cort). Amer. J. Hyg. 13, 685–727.Google Scholar
Rankin, J. S. & Hughes, R. C. (1937). Notes on Diplostomulum ambystomae n.sp. Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 56, 61–6.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rees, G. (1940). Studies on the germ cell cycle of the digenetic trematode Parorchis acanthus Nicoll. Part II. Structure of the miracidium and germinal development in the larval stages. Parasitology, 32, 372–91.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rees, G. (1955). The adult and diplostomulum stage (Diplostomulum phoxini (Faust)) of Diplostomum pelmatoides Dubois and an experimental demonstration of part of the life cycle. Parasitology, 45, 295–312.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Reisinger, E. (1923). Untersuchungen über Bau und Funktion des Exkretionsapparates digenetischer Trematoden. 1. Die Emunktorien des Miracidiums von Schistosomum haematobium Bilharz nebst einigen Beiträgen zu dessen Anatomie und Histologie. Zool. Anz. 57, 1–20.Google Scholar
Rowan, W. B. (1956). The mode of hatching of the egg of Fasciola hepatica. Exp. Parasit. 5, 118–37.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rowan, W. B. (1957). The mode of hatching of the egg of Fasciola hepatica. II. Colloidal nature of the viscous cushion. Exp. Parasit. 6, 131–42.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sanders, D. F. (1957). A new strigeid trematode from an Australian marsupial. J. Helminth. 31, 257–64.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sewell, R. B. S. (1922). Cercariae Indicae. Indian J. Med. Res. Suppl. 10, 370.Google Scholar
Sinitsin, D. F. (1911). [The parthenogenetic generation of trematodes and their descendants in Black Sea Molluscs.] (Russian text.) Mém. Acad. Imp. Sc. St. Petersb. Cl. Phys.-Math. 30, 127.Google Scholar
Szidat, L. (1924). Beiträge zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Holostomiden. II. Entwicklung der Cercaria C. Zool. Anz. 61, 249–66.Google Scholar
Tang, C. C. (1938). Some remarks on the morphology of the miracidium and cercaria of Schistosoma japonicum. Chin. Med. J. Suppl. 423–32.Google Scholar
Tang, C. C. (1941). Morphology and life history of Prosostephanus industrius (Tubangui, 1922) Lutz 1935 (Trematoda: Cyathocotylidae). Peking Nat. Hist. Bull. 16, 29–43.Google Scholar
Turner, H. F. (1958). The life history of Fibricola cratera (Barker & Noll, 1915) Dubois, 1932 (Trematoda: Diplostomatidae). Diss. Abstr. 19, 609.Google Scholar
Ulmer, M. J. (1955). Notes on the morphology and host-parasite specificity of Fibricola cratera (Barker and Noll, 1915) Dubois 1932 (Trematoda: Diplostomatidae). J. Parasit. 41, 460–66.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ulmer, M. J. (1957). Notes on the development of Cotylurus flabelliformis tetracotyles in the second intermediate host (Trematoda: Strigeidae). Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 76, 321–27.Google Scholar
van der Woude, A. (1954). Germ cell cycle of Megalodiscus temperatus (Stafford, 1905) Harwood, 1932 (Paramphistomidae: Trematoda). Amer. Mid. Nat. 51, 172–202.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
van Haitsma, J. P. (1931 a). Studies on the trematode family Strigeidae (Holostomidae), no. XXII. Cotylurus flabelliformis (Faust) and its life-history. Pap. Mich. Acad. Sci. 13, 447–82.Google Scholar
van Haitsma, J. P. (1931 b). Studies on the trematode family Strigeidae (Holostomidae), no. XXIII. Diplostomum flexicaudum (Cort & Brooks) and stages in its life-history. Pap. Mich. Acad. Sci. 13, 483–516.Google Scholar
Wall, L. D. (1941 a). Life history of Spirorchis elephantis (Cort, 1917), a new blood fluke from Chrysemys picta. Amer. Mid. Nat. 25, 402–12.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wall, L. D. (1941 b). Spirorchis parvus (Stunkard), its life history and the development of its excretory system (Trematoda: Spirorchiidae). Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 55, 221–60.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wall, L. D. (1951). The life history of Vasotrema robustum (Stunkard, 1928) Trematoda: Spirorchiidae. Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 70, 173–84.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wallace, F. G. (1939). The life cycle of Pharyngostomum cordatum (Diesing) Ciurea (Trematoda: Alariidae). Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 58, 49–61.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Walton, A. C. (1959). Some parasites and their chromosomes. J. Parasit. 45, 1–20.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
West, R. M. (1935). The cercaria of Neodiplostomum lucidum La Rue and Bosma. Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc. 54, 15–18.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wesenberg-Lund, C. (1934). Contributions to the development of the Trematoda digenea. Part II. The biology of the freshwater cercariae in Danish freshwaters. K. danske vidensk. Selsk. 5, 233.Google Scholar
Yamaguti, S. (1940). Vergleichend-anatomische Studien der Miracidien. Z. Parasitenk. 11, 657–68.CrossRefGoogle Scholar