Description: see that for * Contracaecum osculatum above.
Sites: alimentary tract, body cavity, mesenteries
Hosts: Cyclopterus lumpus (7); Gadus morhua (2, 3, 4); Gadus macrocephalus (7); Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (7); Hippoglossoides platessoides (2); Limanda ferrugineus (7); Mallotus villosus (5, 6, 7); Melanogrammus aeglefinus (7); Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus (7); Myoxocephalus scorpius (7); Nezumia bairdii (7); Pseudopleuronectes americanus (7); Raja spp. (7); Reinhardtius hippoglossoides (7); Theragra chalcogramma (1); Urophycis tenuis (7)
Distribution: Atlantic, Pacific
Records: 1. Berland 1981 (PA); 2. McClelland et al. 1983 (AT); 3. McClelland et al. 1983b (AT); 4. McClelland et al. 1984 (AT); 5. Pálsson & Beverley-Burton 1984 (AT); 6. Pálsson 1986 (AT); 7. Marcogliese 1995a (AT)