Vig Károly: Zoological Research in Western Hungary. A history (Szombathely, 2003)

60 PHYLUM PLATYHELMINTHES (FLATWORMS) CLASS TURBELLARIA (EDDYWORMS) LAJOS MÉHELY is thought to have been and in the Szerdahely Brook (MÉHELY the first to have conducted faunistic 1918a). researches into eddyworms in the Several eddyworms have been Kőszeg Hills and foothills. He men- reported in the Seewinkel (Fertőzug) tioned Crenobia alpina as a glacial relict district on the Austrian side of Lake found near Velem, Cák and Bozsok Fertő (KRAUS 1965). CLASS CESTODA (TAPEWORMS) About ten specimens of the tapeworm Hymenolepis villosa were recovered during dissection of a female great bustard (Otis tarda) which died after being caught near Sopronkőhida (FARAGÓ 1988b). A Hungarian muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) caught by Fertő yielded Aprostatandrya macrocephala and Taenia taeniaeformis (SEY 1965a). Some voles parasitized by tapeworms in the FertőHanság district have been reviewed by ÉVA MURAI (1974). The species Taenia mustelae was found in root-vole (Microtus oeconomus) specimens at Fertőboz, Sopron (Kis-Tómalom), Fehértó (Lake A fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) caught in Kecske Brook near Sopron contained a trematode species new to the Hungarian fauna, Brachycoelium salamandrae (SZABÓ 1961a). OTTÓ SEY (1965a, 1965b and 1967) showed the presence of several parasitic flukes in Hungarian muskrats (Ondatra zibethicus) caught by Fertő. The comFehér) and Barbacs (Barbacs Pond). The same host species yielded Anoplocephaloides dentata at Fertőújlak and Fehértó (MATSKÁSI et al. 1992). Faunistic investigations of the FertőHanság National Park, along with published data and specimens in the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest, have demonstrated the presence of 32 species of cestodes parasitic on mammals in the park and its environs (GUBÁNYI et al. 2002d). One species, Paranoplocephala oeconomi, was new to science (GUBÁNYI and MURAI 2002). monest parasite of the species in North America, Echinostoma coalitum, came to Europe when the host species was introduced. E. revolutum is a common parasite of various vertebrates worldwide. Several specimens of another, unidentified Echinoparyphium species were also found, as was Metorchis albidus, in only the second recorded occurrence in a muskrat. This CLASS TREMATODA (FLUKES)