Abstract
SummaryIn the fully formed daughter sporocyst of Microphallus similis (Jäg.) the tegument is divided into a wide, outer cellular epithelium and a narrow, inner electron-dense anucleated microvillous syncytium. The narrow subtegument consists of circular and longitudinal muscle, nervous, synthesizing and germinal cells. It is suggested that during development of the tegument, an undifferentiated nucleated syncytium becomes divided by the formation of membranes between the nuclei and between the narrow, inner electron-dense microvillous and the outer cellular regions. The outer nucleated region of the tegument is homologous to the nucleated investing syncytium which surrounds redial and cercarial embryos and which is shed later in development. The retention of the nucleated region in some daughter sporocysts is, therefore, an example of paedogenesis.
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