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Acta Parasitologica, Vol.43, No. 4, 1998, 194-199
Bray Rodney A., Gibson David I. - Further observations on the Digenea (Platyhelminthes) of deep-sea fishes in the northeastern Atlantic: Fellodistomidae and Zoogonidae.

Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK

ABSTRACT

The following parasites are described from deep-sea fishes of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Fellodistomidae: Steringophorus haedrichi from Spectrunculus grandis, Porcupine Seabight; Olssonium turneri from Alepocephalus agassizi, Rockall Trough and Porcupine Seabight; Hypertrema ambovatum from Synaphobranchus kaupi, Rockall Trough and Porcupine Seabight and Histiobranchus bathybius, Porcupine Seabight; and Zoogonidae: Brachyenteron rissoanum from Polyacanthonotus challengeri, Porcupine Seabight. These are the first reports of S. haedrichi, H. ambovatum and B. rissoanum from the northeastern Atlantic Ocean.


KEY WORDS: Digenea, Fellodistomidae, Zoogonidae, deep-sea fishes, NE Atlantic
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