Class Trematoda Flashcards
Schistosoma mansoni male
15mm long Possess an oral sucker and acetabulum Remain in copula - male has female in gynecophoric canal Cuticle covered with minute papillae Blood parasite of humans Causes: Schistosomiasis mansoni
Schistosoma mansoni female
10mm long Possess oral sucker and acetabulum Only have minute papillae at anterior and posterior end Blood parasite of humans Causes: Schistosomiasis mansoni
Schistosoma mansoni eggs
Yellowish brown
Elongate
Possess a lateral spine
Schistosoma mansoni sporocysts
Elongate, sausage form sacs (some may be branched) containing germinal cells
Able to produce daughter sporocysts, rediae or rarely cercariae
Schistosoma japonicum eggs
Oval with a minute lateral spine or knob
Fasicola hepatica (whole animal)
Large, thin, leaf shaped
2 suckers (oral and ventral acetabulum)
Humans are definitive host, inhabits bile ducts and liver
Causes fascioliasis or liver rot
Fasicola hepatica eggs
Thin shelled, ellipsoid, yellowish coloured
Possess and operculum
Miracidia inside - with cilia
Fasicola hepatica miracidia
Naked papillae like protrusion (rostellum) is at the broader anterior end
5 tiers of epidermal plates begin at anterior (bear cilia)
Large gland lies towards the anterior
Flame cells in anterior, each have a long tubule opening to the side of the body (faces posteriorly) - make up the excretory system
Clonorchis sinesis
Narrow and elongated body Possess an oral sucker and acetabulum Hermaphroditic Humans are definitive host, inhabit bile ducts Causes: clonorchiasis
Clonochis sinesis eggs
Light bulb or flask shaped
Contain fully developed miracidia (cant tell)
Possess prominent opercular shoulders
Opercula end often has a small lateral protuberance