STUDY ON TWO ECHINOCHASMID PARASITES (TREMATODA: ECHINOCHASMIDAE) FROM UPPER EGYPTIAN CATS

Document Type : Research article

Authors

Dept. of Parasitology, Faculty of Med., Assiut University

Abstract

During a survey of the parasitofauna of cats of Assiut Province, two different echinochasmid worms were found in the small intestine of four out of twenty five examined cats. Comparison of the present flukes with the previously described onas proved that one of them is new variety to which the name Echinochasmus perfoliatus var. aegyp < /span>tius is suggested and the second is believed to be a new species to which the name Echinochasmus brevivitellus 18 proposed.