When this historically significant volume was first published in 1968, the detailed study of the Trematoda had been sadly neglected in Britain and zoologists interested in this group had been obliged to search for information in foreign periodicals, or to take what they could find in a few standard works and ordinary textbooks of zoology. Dawes' aim in this book was to make available in English, in a single volume, information that will enable students, teachers, and research workers of zoology in schools, colleges, and universities to identify the trematode parasites of representative animals from the European fauna, and also to provide a broader outline of the structure, modes of life, bionomics, and life histories of these animals that could be found in any one book published in any language.
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Part I. The Phylum Platyhelminthes
Part II. The Contrasting Life Histories of the Monogenea and Digenea
Part III. The Morphology of the Monogenea
1. External structure
2. Internal structure
Part IV. The Structure of Aspidogaster and the General of the Aspidogastridae
Part V. The Morphology of the Digenea
1. The suborder Gasterostomata Odhner
2. The suborder Prosmostomata Odhner
Part VI. The Taxonomy of the Trematoda
1. The classification of the Monogenea
2. The classification of the Digenea
Part VII. The Monogenea of British Fished and Amphibia
Part VIII. Some Digenetic Trematodes of British and Some other Fishes
Part IX. Some Common Digenea of Amphibia and Reptilia
Part X. Some Trematodes of Birds
Part XI. Some Trematodes of Mammals
Part XII. The Larvae of the Digenea
Part XIII. The Life Histories of the Trematoda
1. Monogenea
2. Digenea.