Dr. Holló Ferenc - Dr. Murai Éva szerk.: Parasitologia Hungarica 5. (Budapest, 1972)

Body irregularly oval. Tegument spinöse» Relativelly small oral sucker followed by muscular pharynx. Oesophagus absent. Caecal branches reaching posterior and of body. Acetabulum equal with oral sucker. Testes very large, left one situated behind pharynx, right one level with acetabulum. Ovary lying behind posterior testis, on left side of body. Uterus situated behind ovary, but advancing anteriorad to ventral sucker. Cirrus-sac situated on dorsal side of ventral sucker, containing bipartite seminal vesicle. Vitellary glands composed of many minute follicles, beginning at posterior side of ventral sucker, extending to posterior end of body. Follicles found densely in body, except of region behind ventral sucker. Genital pore opening posteriorly from acetabulum. This fluke species occurs in Europe, in the kidney of shrew /Soricidae/ species. Heterophyidae Odhner, 1914 Apophallus muehlingi /Gagerskj

öld, 1899/ Host: Sorex araneus /1 exemplar/ Localisation: intestine Locality: Agárd Adult specimens of A. muehlingi live in the intestine of fisheating birds /Laridae/. It is a common fluke in Hungary. This Trematode species develops - after arteficial, or rarely natural infection - in the small intestine of carnivores. Its metacercaria occurs in all fish species, in all natural waters and fish-ponds in Hungary /MOLNÁR, 1969/. The fishes of the Lake Velence are also parasitized. The common shrew specimen captured at Agárd in coastal reeds, had been infected probably by- eating infected fish. In the available literature, I found no data on the occurrence of A. muehlingi in Insectivora.