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Onchocotyle somniosi n.sp., an Ectoparasitic Trematode of the Sleeper Shark (Somniosus microcephalus)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

David Causey
David Causey
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(Princeton University.)
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The specimens herein described were obtained from the gills of Somniosus microcephalus Block, at Excursion Inlet, Alaska, in 1909. This shark is also the host of Onchocotyle borealis, the species most closely resembling the new species, and is known in European waters as the Greenland Shark. To quote Goode: “This species, also called by our fishermen the ‘Gurry’ or ‘Ground’ Shark, is a native of the Arctic Seas, but on our coast ranges south to Cape Cod, and in the Eastern Atlantic at least to England, while in the Pacific it has been observed from Puget Sound northward.”

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , June 1926 , pp. 195 - 202
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1926

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