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ANIMAL PARASITES OF HOGS, GOATS, AND BUFFALOES FROM HONG KONG.*
H. T. CHEN.
Lingnan University, Canton.
Through the kindness of Dr. Walter MacKenzie, the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon of the Sanitary Department, Hong Kong, the writer had the rare opportunity of working at intervals in the Kennedy Town Abattoir during the academic year of 1933-1934 for the examination of animal parasites in slaughtered animals. The cadavers examined consisted
I. BUFFALOES.
Name of Parasite
Fasciola hepatica
Linnaeus, 1758
Eurytrema pancrea-
tum (Janson, 1889)
Fischoederius elonga- tus (Poirier, 1883)
Location in Host
Incidence of Infection
Remarks
18 per cent.
20 per cent.
Liver and biliary
passage Biliary passage,
pancreatic duct
Stomach
Generally very
heavy infec tionst
79 per cent.
Homalogaster paloniae
Poirier, 1883
Large intestine
13 per cent.
Cotylophoron cotylo-
phorum (Fischoeder,
Stomach
10 per cent.
1901)
Moniezia sp. ++
Small intestine
5 per cent.
Oesophagostomum
radiatum
Large intestine
15 per cent.
(Rudolphi, 1803)
Trichuris ovis
(Abildgaard, 1795)
Large intestine
23 per cent.
Cooperia punctata
(V. Linsfow 1907)
Small intestine
Less than 5 per cent.
* A contribution from the Biological Laboratory, Lingnan University, Canton. investigation is partly supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in China.
The
+ These trematodes, because of their abundance, are being used by some people for
feeding their chickens. It is said that they are very nutritious.
++ Since some important structural characters do not seem to fit into the key of any known species we feel that its specific determination will have to be left until a more critical study can be made.
The Hong Kong Naturalist.