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A Parasitic Copepod belonging to the Genus Medesicaste (Krøyer), and its Relation to the Tumours it produces on the Fish, Trigla gurnardus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

W. Harold Leigh-Sharpe
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A tumour among the gill filaments of Trigla gurnardus bears a female Medesicaste with the head and neck buried in its apex, and a male Medesicaste completely embedded in its base. The two sexes of the parasite are connected by a conjugation tube, external to the tumour, down which tube the spermatophores presumably pass. The appendages of the copepod are described.

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , June 1922 , pp. 214 - 219
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1922

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References

1 A full list of references and synonyms is given by Scott and Scott (1913). The British Parasitic Copepoda, The Ray Society, London. The only fairly good figure is that in this work, Plate LII, fig. 6.