A Reference List of the Trematode Parasites of British Freshwater Fishes

Abstract

Our freshwater fishes have for long been a subject of some economic interest and in consequence their diseases and their parasites have received quite a considerable amount of attention. Much has been written on the subject, even in this country, and it has formed the basis of not a little speculation and possibly some results of economic value. As usual, however, more attention has been devoted to the matter on the continent and in America. It is, nevertheless, gratifying to find that Mclntosh (1863) was one of the first to realise the important help to be derived from a scientific study of fish parasites in investigations on such problems as migration, etc. His work has been greatly amplified by the later researches of such men as Hofer (1904) and Zschokke (1884–1914) in Europe, and Ward (1908–11) in America, to mention only a few well-known names which have been prominent in this line of investigation.