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A scanning electron microscope study on the tegument of Proalarioides kobayashii Park, 1940 (Trematoda)
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A scanning electron microscope study on the tegument of Proalarioides kobayashii Park, 1940 (Trematoda)

Chu, J P , Im, I S , Hwang, I D
Korean J Parasitol 1991;29(2):173-179.
Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Medical School, Chonbuk National University, Chonju, Korea.
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A SEM study was performed on the surface of adult P. kobayashii Park, 1940, recovered from the snake, Elaphe rufodorsata. The anterior part of the worms was cup-shape and equipped with oral, ventral suckers, pseudosuckers, and tribocytic organ, and the posterior one was finger-like and round-ended. The tegument of the anterior body was covered with 3-4 pointed small spines on the mid-ventral surface and 1-2 pointed ones on the lateral surface. Sensory papillae such as type II, dome-shape ones, and papillae with an opening were distributed over the ventral surface of the anterior portion. The round tribocytic organ was bearing small stout spines laterally, whereas the surface which comes in contact with the host tissues consisted of numerous long fibrillar fibers. The lip of the oral sucker contained type II papillae. Lateral margin of the anterior body revealed type III papillae.

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