Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 April 2009
Habitat and Record. Two specimens, ♀, were taken on Mustelus vulgaris ♂, the smooth hound, captured at Plymouth in August 1918. They were attached in the angle between the host's body and the pelvic fin and slightly to the left. [This location is unfortunate since the length of the attaching “arms” (2nd maxillae) I have endeavoured elsewhere to show, is a variable character not to be depended upon for the determination of species; for it is my experience that Lernaeopoda spp. have arms very short in this location.]
1 See these papers for references herein quoted.
2 Not to be confused with L. musteli Thomson (1889) occurring on Mustelus antarcticus in the vicinity of New Zealand.