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Lernaea (Lernaeocera) elegans n.sp, a Parasitic Copepod of Anguilla japonica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

W. Harold Leigh-Sharpe
Affiliation:
Lecturer in Zoology, Chelsea Polytechnic, London, S. W. Lecturer in Biology, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Paddington, London, W.

Extract

Habitat and Record. During November 1924, by the courtesy of Seizo Takeda, I received from the Yogyo Shikenjyo (Piscicultural Experiment Station) at Kitajima near Toyohashi, Japan, the head of a small Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica, whose buccal cavity appeared to be completely filled with about forty parasites belonging to the genus usually known as Lernaeocera, but to which Wilson (1917, p. 3) has given reasons for restoring the name Lernaea Linnaeus. (See Note, p. 251.)

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1925

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