A Re-description of Echinostephilla virgula Lebour, 1909

• Published in: Journal of Helminthology
• Main Author: Shelswell, E. Margaret
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1954
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; General Medicine; Parasitology; Arenaria interpres
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x00032776; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022149X00032776

Echinostephilla virgula occupies an isolated position in the Digenea; apparently it does not belong with certainty to any of the existing families and, as the original description is incomplete, it was considered worthy of re-description. This trematode was found frequently at St. Andrews between the months of September, 19–19, and March, 1951, in the intestine of the Turnstone ( Arenaria interpres Linn.). There was usually a heavy parasitism, fifty to one hundred worms being found in one host. However, in spite of frequent examinations of birds shot after this period, no further specimens were found.