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The biology of Isancistrum subulatae n.sp., a monogenean parasitic on the squid, Alloteuthis subulata, at Plymouth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. Llewellyn
J. Llewellyn
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Comparative Physiology, The University of Birmingham, P.O. Box 363, Birmingham, B TT
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A new species of a monogenean Isancistrum subulatae (Gyrodactylidae) has been discovered on the arms and tentacles of the cephalopod mollusc Alloteuthis subulata at Plymouth and I. loliginis, on the gills of the same host, has been re-discovered for the first time since its original description in 1912. I. subulatae, like other gyrodactylids, is viviparous, and has been shown by experiments to transfer to new hosts by contagion. In nature such transfers probably take place during copulation of the hosts and since the parasite may occur in numbers of several thousands per host, it may thereby constitute a venereal disease.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 64 , Issue 2 , May 1984 , pp. 285 - 302
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1984

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