Occurrence of the Genus Archigetes in Britain (original) (raw)

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DURING the course of investigations into the taxonomy and ecology of aquatic Oligochaeta we have observed two species of Archigetes, a genus not to our knowledge previously recorded from Britain. Archigetes appendiculatus Mrazek, 1897 (non Ratzel, 1868) was first observed in a specimen of Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri Claparède, 1862 obtained from a Liverpool pet shop along with a large number of uninfected ‘Tubifex’ worms. The same species of parasite was later found in a pond near Fornalls Green Lane, Meols, Cheshire, on May 28, 1959. A second species A. sieboldi Leuckart, 1869, also from L. hoffmeisteri, was found from the Shropshire Union Canal near Chester on March 20, 1962. The cestodes were readily identified from recent descriptions of the genus1,2. In each instance the parasites were located in the genital segments of the tubificids. Both specimens of A. appendiculatus had eggs in the uterus (Fig. 1), while two specimens of A. sieboldi, from one oligochaete, contained no eggs.

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    R. O. BRINKHURST, J. C. CHUBB & C. R. KENNEDY

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BRINKHURST, R., CHUBB, J. & KENNEDY, C. Occurrence of the Genus Archigetes in Britain.Nature 196, 494–495 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/196494a0

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