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Rhopalura granosa sp. nov., an Orthonectid Parasite of a Lamellibranch Heteranomia squamula L., with a Note on its Swimming Behaviour
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2009
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A new species of Orthonectid, Rhopalura granosa from Heteranomia squamula L., is described. The female is fusiform, and about 190 to 230μ, long, and 55 to 75μ broad. The male is also fusiform, but less than half the size of the female, being only 87 to 95μ, long and 20μ broad. R. granosa is distinguished from all other known species of Rhopalura by the presence in the male of large refringent bodies in the anterior cone, and in the first row of cells of the second ring. The male of R. ophiocomce Giard, a species closely allied to R. granosa, has the refringent bodies in the cells of the second ring only.
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- Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , August 1933 , pp. 233 - 252
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- Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1933
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