The Animal Parasites of Man

by Harold Benjamin Fantham; Max Braun; J. W. W. Stephens; Fred. V. Theobald

Seminal Vesicle—commences about the level of the first vitelline acini. The coils displace the uterus ventrally and to the left. In the pedicle the vesicle diminishes in extent and lies in its dorsal (anterior) side.

Habitat.—Liver of pariah dogs, India. In North-Western Provinces about 40 per cent. are infected. This fluke appears to be different from Amphimerus (Opisthorchis) noverca in man, as the latter has not the pedicle on the summit of which lie the sucker and common genital pore.

Fig. 156.—Amphimerus noverca, Braun. o.s., oral sucker; p.b., pharynx; ac., ventral sucker; ut., uterus; v.g., vitellarium; ov., ovary; v.d., vas efferens; ex.c., excretory canal; t., testis. (After McConnell.)

Genus. Amphimerus, Barker, 1912 (?).

Structure as in Opisthorchis, except that the vitellaria are separated into two portions, an ant-ovarial and a post-ovarial.

Amphimerus noverca, Barker, 1912 (?).

Syn.: Distomum conjunctum, McConnell, 1876 (nec Cobbold, 1859); Opisthorchis noverca, M. Braun, 1903 pro parte.