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1 April 2011 A New Dicyemid from Octopus hubbsorum (Mollusca: Cephalopoda: Octopoda)
Sheila Castellanos-Martinez, M. Carmen Gómez, F. G. Hochberg, Camino Gestal, Hidetaka Furuya
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Abstract

A new species of dicyemid mesozoan is described from Octopus hubbsorum Berry, 1953, collected in the south of Bahia de La Paz, Baja California Sur, México. Dicyema guaycurense n. sp. is a medium-size species that reaches about 1,600 µm in length. It occurs in folds of the renal appendages. The vermiform stages are characterized as having 22 peripheral cells, a conical calotte, and an axial cell that extends to the base of the propolar cells. Infusoriform embryos consist of 39 cells; 1 nucleus is present in each urn cell and the refringent bodies are solid. This is the first of a dicyemid species from a host collected in the Gulf of California.

Sheila Castellanos-Martinez, M. Carmen Gómez, F. G. Hochberg, Camino Gestal, and Hidetaka Furuya "A New Dicyemid from Octopus hubbsorum (Mollusca: Cephalopoda: Octopoda)," Journal of Parasitology 97(2), 265-269, (1 April 2011). https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-2577.1
Received: 25 June 2010; Accepted: 1 October 2010; Published: 1 April 2011
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