8b Flashcards
Into which alimentary canal opens; may posses hooklets or spines
ORAL SUCKER
For attachment. Posterior in some species
VENTRAL SUCKER
Leaf shaped
Integument: scales vary in size, pattern and distribution, but posterior is aspinose.
Fasciola hepatica ADULT
“Hen’s egg-shaped”
Ovoid, light yellow- brown small, flat operculum at one end.
Fasciola hepatica OVA
●“Bottle- neck appearance”
●Pointed anterior, rounded posterior
●Integument: aspinose
Clonorchis sinensis ADULT
●“Old- fashioned electric bulb”
●broadly ovoid, light yellowish-brown, convex operculum fits a circular rim of shell, small knob at the abopercular.
Clonorchis sinensis OVA
●Resembles C. Sinensis
●Integument: aspinose
Opisthorchis felineus ADULT
●elongated ovoid, narrower than C. sinesisova, light yellowish-brown, operculum fits into thickened rim of shell, minute thickening at the abopercular end.
Opisthorchis felineus OVA
●“Lancet-shaped”
●Integument: aspinose
Dicrocoelium dendriticum ADULT
●asymmetrically ovoidal dark brown in color, broad convex operculum
Dicrocoelium dendriticum OVA
●Elongate- ovoidal in shape
●Integument: Spinose
Fasciola buski ADULT
●Hen’s egg-shaped, identical to F. hepatica, thin, transparent shell, small, slightly convex operculum
Fasciola buski OVA
●Attenuated at both ends
●Integument: with spines and scales
Echinostoma ilocanum ADULT
●straw-colored, ovoid, small operculum
Echinostoma ilocanum OVA
●“Pyriform”
●Narrow anterior, rounded posterior
Heterophyes heterophyes ADULT