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Reproduction in Acanthocot Yle Greeni n. sp. (Monogenea) from the Skin of Raia Spp. at Plymouth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Sheila MacDonald
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Comparative Physiology, University of Birmingham, P.O. Box 363, Birmingham
J. Llewellyn
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Comparative Physiology, University of Birmingham, P.O. Box 363, Birmingham

Extract

While collecting acanthocotylid monogeneans for various investigations (Kearn, 1967; Lyons, 1972; Macdonald, 1974) Mr J. E. Green of the Laboratory of the M.B.A. at Plymouth has very occasionally found specimens of what each of these authors has suspected may be a new species. In July 1978 nine more living worms were collected, the material was indeed found to require the erection of a new species and we propose to call the parasite Acanthocotyle greeni.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1980

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