Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of

 

Date of this Version

3-15-1944

Document Type

Article

Citation

Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences (March 15, 1944) 34(3): 86-89.

Comments

Public domain material.

Abstract

The subfamily Loimoinae was named by Price (1936) for a peculiar monogenetic trematode, Loimos salpinggoides MacCal lum, 1917, from the gills of a dusky shark, Carcharias obscurus (Lesueur), at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA. Price (1938) redescribed this trematode, correcting several errors made by MacCallum. Manter (1938) described Tricotyle scoliodoni from a shark, Scoliodon terrae-novae (Richardson), from Beaufort, North Carolina, USA. He noted some similarities between Tricotyle and Loimos. The redescription of Loimos by Price increased these similarities.

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