Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of

 

Date of this Version

8-1981

Citation

Systematic Parasitology 3:1 (August 1981), pp. 25–28.

doi: 10.1007/BF00012236

Comments

Copyright © 1981 Dr. W. Junk Publishers; published by Kluwer/Springer. Used by permission.

Abstract

Terranova ceticola n. sp. is described from specimens in the stomachs of an individual dwarf sperm whale, Kogia simus, which stranded on the beach at Biloxi, Mississippi. It is characterized by possessing a single pair of medial preanal papillae, 38 to 40 pairs of lateral preanal papillae, five pairs of postanal papillae. and spicules 1 to 2% of the body length and by lacking cuticular plates at the posterior anal lip of males.

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