Identification of Schistosoma haematobium/CC-6 (B.SC.ZOOLOGY_MAJOR_CCF)

  Identifying features are:

1. Elongated, cylindrical body, pinkish or greyish in colour.
2. Sexual dimorphism is clear.
3. Female is lodged in a ventral gynecophoric canal of male.
4. Oral & ventral suckers are present.
5. Genital aperture is present below the ventral sucker.
6. Alimentary canal consists of mouth, oesophagus and bifid intestine.
7. Intestinal limbs unite and runs posteriorly as a single tube ending blindly.
8. In male, very thin tubercles present on the upper surface. Ventral sucker highly developed.
9. In female, delicate body is slendar with smooth surface. Suckers are weak.
10. Reproductive system of male consists of 4 to 5 testes, vasa efferentia, a short vas deferens & seminal vesicle. In female ovary, oviduct, uterus, ootype &  vitelline glands are present.

Hence, The specimen seems to be Schistosoma haematobium

Systematic Position (Ruppert & Barnes,1994)

 Kingdom: Animalia

   Phylum: Platyhelminthes

        Class: Trematoda

              Sub Class: Digenea

                      Genus: Schistosoma

Diagram:https://drive.google.com/file/d/17FPfpVBs0GABznI3ZWwfwGRBiIr_F1aJ/view?usp=sharing