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Studies on monocystid gregarines

Six Apolocystis species including four new species A. lavernensis, A. perfida, A. rotaria and A. spinosa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

B. Rees*
Affiliation:
Forensic Science Laboratory, Jordan Street, Preston*
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*This work was carried out at the Zoology Department, University College, Cardiff.

Extract

The present paper is concerned with the description of six species of gregarines which are all parasites of British earthworms; they are: Apolocystis herculea (Bosanquet, 1894), A. lavernensis sp.nov., A. perfida sp.nov., A. rotaria sp.nov., A. spinosa sp.nov., A. villosa (Hesse, 1909) Cognetti, 1923. The observations upon which these descriptions are based form part of a larger survey of the monocystid fauna of several British earthworm species from the Cardiff area. The methods used are fully described in a previous paper (Rees, 1962).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1963

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