Echinorhynchus brayi n. sp (Acanthocephala : Echinorhynchidae) from Pachycara crassiceps (Roule) (Zoarcidae), a deep-sea fish

Authors
Wayland, MT Sommerville, C Gibson, DI
Citation
Mt. Wayland et al., Echinorhynchus brayi n. sp (Acanthocephala : Echinorhynchidae) from Pachycara crassiceps (Roule) (Zoarcidae), a deep-sea fish, SYST PARAS, 43(2), 1999, pp. 93-101
Citations number
42
Categorie Soggetti
Biology
Journal title
SYSTEMATIC PARASITOLOGY
ISSN journal
01655752 → ACNP
Volume
43
Issue
2
Year of publication
1999
Pages
93 - 101
Database
ISI
SICI code
0165-5752(199906)43:2<93:EBNS(:>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
Echinorhynchus brayi n. sp. (Palaeacanthocephala: Echinorhynchidae) is desc ribed from Pachycara crassiceps (Roule) (Zoarcidae) from the Porcupine Seab ight, Northeast Atlantic. The new species closely resembles E. canyonensis Huffman & Kliever, 1977, a parasite of a Pacific zoarcid, but has longer le mnisci, larger eggs and larger testes. E. brayi n. sp. can be readily diffe rentiated from the ten other Echinorhynchus spp. recorded from deep-sea fis hes (E. abyssicola, E. gadi, E. longiproboscis, E. malacocephali, E. melano glaeae, E. muraenolepisi, E. petrotschenkoi, E. sebastolobi, E. trachyrinci and E. truttae), because it has fewer hooks per longitudinal row.