On some Queensland Trematodes, with Anatomical Observations and Descriptions of New Species and Genera.

Abstract

ABSTRACT The Trematodes comprising the subject-matter of the present work were collected by officers of the Institute and forwarded to me from time to time by the director, Dr. Anton Breinl, together with notes on the location of the parasites in their hosts and on the methods of preservation employed. The specimens were fixed for the most part in hot 70 per cent, alcohol, or in sublimate acetic, hot or cold; and, in cases where the form of the worm seemed to require it, some were fixed under slight pressure. The specimens converted into whole mounts I have generally stained in Ehrlich’s or Delafield’s haematoxylin and cleared in clove oil; all the forms except two, which were represented by single specimens, were studied by means of serial sections as well as in whole mounts.