Dr. Kassai Tibor - Dr. Murai Éva szerk.: Parasitologia Hungarica 6. (Budapest, 1973)

Segments wider than long, proportion of width and length of mature segments never reaching 1:1. Secondary segmentation only occasionally observable. Number of segments in well developed worms 500-600: of these cervical segments are 90-110, young segments containing organs but not ripe eggs 80-120, segments with ripe eggs 300-400. Male reproductive system: Number of testes 60-70 per segment, situated in the two lateral fields of medullary parenchyme (Pig

. 4), diameter 60-90 p, cirrus sac round, spermaduct with several whorls, spirally curved (Pig. 5). Diameter of cirrus sac 90-125 FGenital atrium situated in median line of dorsal surface of segment, or slightly removed in an opposite direction to uterus sac in median-height of segment. Female reproductive system

: Ovary elongated, situated near posterior margin of segment in medullary parenchyme and transversally occupying its two-thirds. Of a tubular structure, its fascicles forming a "lobe" widening towards sides of segment, eventually a similar widening observable in median line of segment (Fig. 6). Transversally 400-500 ;u, width at outer lobes 90-120 p. Vagina decurrent towards ovary along midline of proLegends to figures Fig. 1: Bothricephalus gowkongensis, scolex, view laterolateral

. Fig. 2: B. gowkongensis, scolex, view dorsoventral. Fig. 3: B. gowkongensis, scolex, section transversal. Fig. 4: B. gowkongensis,hermaphrodite proglottid,section transversal (t= testes, vg= vitellary glands, 0= ovary). Fig. 5: B. gowkongensis, hermaphrodite segments, section sagittal (c= cirrus sac, ts= tocostoma). Fig. 6: B. gowkongensis, mature segments (in toto). Fig. 7: B. phoxini, scolex, view laterolateral

. Fig. 8: B. phoxini, scolex, view dorsoventral. Fig. 9: B. phoxini, scolex, section transversal. Fig.

10: B. phoxini, mature proglottids (in toto). Fig .11: B. phoxini, mature proglottids, section longitudinal (o = ovarium, e = eggs, c = cirrus sac, ts = tocostoma).