The Animal Parasites of Man

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

In addition private prophylaxis must not be neglected, and its chief aim should be directed to the suitable preparation of pork.

Family. Dioctophymidæ.

Genus. Dioctophyme, Collet-Megret, 1802.

Syn.: Eustrongylus, Dies., 1851.

Large worms. Anterior extremity unarmed; the mouth is surrounded by six papillæ. One ovary. The vulva is in the anterior region of the body.

Dioctophyme gigas, Rudolphi, 1802.

Syn.: Dioctophyme renale, Goeze, 1782; Ascaris canis et martis, Schrank, 1788; Ascaris visceralis et renalis, Gmelin, 1789; Strongylus gigas, Rud., 1802; Eustrongylus gigas, Dies., 1851; Strongylus renalis, Moq. Tand., 1860; Eustrongylus visceralis, Raill., 1885.

Fig. 306.—Dioctophyme gigas, male. Natural size. (After Railliet.)