A New Tapeworm, Diphyllobothrium salvelini sp. nov., from a Salmon, Salvelinus alpinus , in Greenland

By kind permission of the Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) the writer has had the opportunity of studying some tapeworms collected from a Greenland Salmon ( Salvelinus alpinus subsp. ?) from Ottostrand, East Greenland, in August 1948 by Hjalmar Fleischer of Oslo. The material was fou...

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Published in:Journal of Helminthology
Main Author: Liang-Sheng, Yeh
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1955
Subjects:
Animal Science and Zoology
General Medicine
Parasitology
Greenland
East Greenland
Salvelinus alpinus
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x00024202
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022149X00024202
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Summary:By kind permission of the Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) the writer has had the opportunity of studying some tapeworms collected from a Greenland Salmon ( Salvelinus alpinus subsp. ?) from Ottostrand, East Greenland, in August 1948 by Hjalmar Fleischer of Oslo. The material was found in the “gut” and contained about thirty specimens of an adult Diphyllobothrium , which appears to be new, along with specimens of Diplocotyle olrikii Krabbe, 1874 and Eubothrium crassum (Schrank, 1790).

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