The Taxonomy and Early Development of Procamallanus fulvidraconis n. sp.

Abstract

In working on the nematode collection of the Division of Parasitology, Department of Pathology, Peiping Union Medical College, the writer had the opportunity to study a new form of Procamallanus, which, being a species allied to Camallanus elegans, was found to pass through similar intermediate hosts, Cyclops species. It is interesting that the development of the present form, in so far as that development occurs within the body cavity of the Cyclops, follows a course very similar to that of Dracunculus medinensis, as observed by Leiper in I907.