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JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY
Volume 97, Issue 2, Pages 265-269Publisher
ALLEN PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2577.1
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- National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [18570087]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [18570087] Funding Source: KAKEN
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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, Mexico. Dicyema guaycurense n. sp. is a medium-size species that reaches about 1,600 mu m 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.
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