Platyhelminthes Flashcards
Reverse Platyhelminthes
- tear drop fluke covered in scales
- swim to surface and drop down
- eating undercooked fish
- small intestine encystment
Heterophyes heterophes
Reverse Platyhelminthes
- rickettsial diease in dogs that ingest raw salmon
- lives in small intestinge
- example of hyperparasitism (rickettsial –> bacteria in trematode)
- no sporpcysts, rediae, metacercariae in kidneys fins and muscles, racoons and skunks DH
Nanophyetus salmincola
Reverse Platyhelminthes
- bile ducts of liver in cattle, sheep, pigs, etc.
- vitellaria middle third of body
- ANTs climb to top of leaves and eat vegetation “mind control”
eggs –> snail –> slime ball (cercariae) –> ant (metacercariae) –> cattle
Dicrocoelium dendriticum “lancet fluke”
Reverse Platyhelminthes
plagiorchiida – small eggs, adults do not look like each other
dicrocoelidae – liver flukes, terrestrial or semi-terrestrial, pointy ends
Other types of digeneans
Reverse Platyhelminthes
- rectum and bladder of amphibians
- HUGE posterior sucker
Megalodiscus temperatus
Reverse Platyhelminthes
- pair of disks (diverticula) in the oral sucker/pocketed structures
Diplidiscidae
Reverse Platyhelminthes
- parasite of beavers
- metacercariae on sticks at bottom of pong
- in stomach of beaver
Stichorchis subtriquetrus
Reverse Platyhelminthes
- rumen of domestic animals
- conical, pink when living white when fixed
- metacercariae encyst on aquatic vegetation (no 2nd intermediate host)
- penetrate gut
- secondary bacterial infection
Paraphistomum cervi
Reverse Platyhelminthes
- deformities in frogs
- first IH snail
- rapid angular swimming
- DH birds badgers
Ribeiroia ondatrae
Reverse Platyhelminthes
- large, lead shaped mammals (herbivores)
- tegument with scales/spines
- acetabulum close to oral sucker
- LOTs of vitellaria
- liver of mammals
Fasciolidae
Reverse Platyhelminthes
- collar of spines
- aquatic host/environment
- ingesting raw clams
Echinostoma
Reverse Platyhelminthes
- one oral sucker
- oral sucker and ventral at posterior end
- oral sucker and ventral somewhere else
Monostome, Amphistome, and Distome Differences
Reverse Platyhelminthes
eggs miracidia sporocysts --> rediae cercaraie metacercariae cyst
miracicia and cercaraie have more variety in sensory organs because they must find a host
some eggs have operculum
no cyst of operculum on egg in blood flukes
Life Cycle of Digenean Trematode
Reverse Platyhelminthes
- LOW specificity
- 1st intermediate host mollusc, 2nd or 3rd varies
- economic costs and medically important
- flattened, powerful oral sucker and sometimes ventral sucker
- tegument, spiny, muscular, orthogon nervous system
Digenaen Trematodes “flukes”
Reverse Platyhelminthes
- bile ducts of rays in atlantic ocean
- lobsters and other crustaceans
Stichocotyle nephrosis
Reverse Platyhelminthes
- ventral sucker waffle
- eggs hatch in molluscan host
- can develop in host (no need for further migration)
Aspidogaster conchicola