Some Egyptian Heterophyid Trematodes

Abstract

During the early summer of 1953, the senior author was flown to Cairo, Egypt, by the United States Navy2 to study certain trematodes of medical importance. The work reported here was begun in collaboration with the junior author at the Navy Medical Research Unit-3 and continued during the ensuing year at the University of Southern California.3 A trip was made to the small fishing villages, Baltim and El Burg, located on the northeastern shore of Lake Burullus where a host of children quickly offered their services for collecting and in a short time they presented us, for a fee, with several thousand snails, Pironella conica Blainville, and over one hundred small fishes, Aphanius fasciatus (Valenciennes). We are indebted to Dr. T. Abbott, U. S. National Museum, for the identification of the snails, and to Dr. Carl L. Hubbs, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, for the indentification of the fishes. These animals were living in brackish or saline water since the collecting site is near the connection of the lake with the Mediterranean Sea.