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1 December 2010 A New Dicyemid from Benthoctopus sibiricus (Mollusca: Cephalopoda: Octopoda)
Hidetaka Furuya
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Abstract

A new species of dicyemid mesozoan is described from Benthoctopus sibiricus Loyning, 1930, collected in the eastern Chukchi Sea. Dicyemennea chukchiense n. sp. is a medium species that reaches about 2,000 µm in length; it lives in folds of the renal appendages. The vermiform stages are characterized in having 23 peripheral cells, a conical calotte, and an axial cell that extends to the base of the propolar cells. An anterior abortive axial cell is present in vermiform embryos. Infusoriform embryos consist of 37 cells; a single nucleus is present in each urn cell and the refringent bodies are solid. This is the first dicyemid described from the Arctic waters.

Hidetaka Furuya "A New Dicyemid from Benthoctopus sibiricus (Mollusca: Cephalopoda: Octopoda)," Journal of Parasitology 96(6), 1123-1127, (1 December 2010). https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-2411.1
Received: 13 December 2009; Accepted: 1 July 2010; Published: 1 December 2010
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