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The oncomiracidium and post-oncomiracidial development of the hexabothriid monogenean Rajonchocotyle emarginata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Maureen Wiskin
Maureen Wiskin
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Comparative Physiology, The University, P.O. Box 363, Birmingham 15, England
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Summary

A description is given of some features of the embryonic development, the structure of the oncomiracidium and the postlarval development of R. emarginata, a hexabothriid parasite on the gills of Raia clavata.

There are three phases in the larval development of the haptor of Rajonchocotyle: an oncomiracidial or marginal hook stage, a hamulus stage and a sucker stage. Neither the embryo nor the oncomiracidium ever possesses more than five pairs of marginal hooks and marginal hooks I (the posterior-most pair) are considered to be missing. The marginal hooks develop within distinct binucleate oncoblasts. During the early stages of post-oncomiracidial growth the secondary attachment organs of the haptor are formed and it is only after the completion of the development of the haptor that the reproductive organs begin to appear. Firstly, a pair of hamuli is acquired, followed by four pairs of suckers, which form in posterior-anterior succession at the site of marginal hooks III-VI. The first pair of suckers remains unarmed while the other three pairs acquire hooked sclerites and become the main functional attachment organs of the adult. As the first pair of suckers appears the posterior part of the haptor lengthens to form a caudal appendage. Hexabothriids are considered to show closer affinity to the 8-suckered chimaericolids and diclidophorids than to the 6-suckered polysto-matids, the unarmed suckers representing a simplification, by loss of the sclerite and reduction in sucker size, of an originally armed sucker.

I would like to express my thanks to Dr J. Llewellyn for his interest and for much helpful discussion.

Thanks are also due to the Director and Staff of the Marine Biological Association at Plymouth, in particular Mr J. E. Green for material and assistance, and to Dr A.j Brinkmann, of the Department of Zoology, University of Bergen, for supplying specimens of Squalonchocotyle borealis.

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Parasitology , Volume 60 , Issue 3 , June 1970 , pp. 457 - 479
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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