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FIGURE 3 in First record of the parasitic barnacle Anelasma squalicola Darwin, 1852 (Pollicipedomorpha: Pollicipedidae) in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and a new host report: Etmopterus benchleyi Vásquez, Ebert & Long, 2015 (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae)

  • 1. Museo de Zoología, Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical (CIBET), Universidad de Costa Rica. 11501-2060, San Pedro de Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica. & Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (CIMAR), Universidad de Costa Rica. 11501-2060, San Pedro de Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica.
  • 2. Museo de Zoología, Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical (CIBET), Universidad de Costa Rica. 11501-2060, San Pedro de Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica. & Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (CIMAR), Universidad de Costa Rica. 11501-2060, San Pedro de Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica. & Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica. 11501-2060, San Pedro de Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica.

Description

FIGURE 3. Anelasma squalicola (UCR 3711-001) found as parasite of the Ninja lanternshark, Etmopterus benchley. A. Specimen of ~28.8 mm TL, parasite of a female shark of 43.5 cm TL (see Fig. 1); Ovigerous specimen of ~29.1 mm TL parasite of a male shark of 52.5 cm TL (see Fig. 2); the arrowhead points towards the eggs within the mantle cavity. The peduncular bulbous structure covered with fine and root-like filaments was not properly removed from the shark tissue and, therefore, is not illustrated in the figure. Scale bar 2 cm.

Notes

Published as part of Angulo, Arturo & Sibaja-Cordero, Jeffrey A., 2021, First record of the parasitic barnacle Anelasma squalicola Darwin, 1852 (Pollicipedomorpha: Pollicipedidae) in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and a new host report: Etmopterus benchleyi Vásquez, Ebert & Long, 2015 (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae), pp. 165-172 in Zootaxa 5072 (2) on page 170, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5072.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/5733756

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