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
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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