Ocular lesions associated with attachment of the parasitic copepod Ommatokoita elongata (Grant) to corneas of Greenland sharks, Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch & Schneider)

• Published in: Journal of Fish Diseases
• Main Authors: Borucinska, J. D., Benz, G. W., Whiteley, H. E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1998
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Greenland; Victor Bay; Somniosus microcephalus; Copepods
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2761.1998.00122.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1365-2761.1998.00122.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-2761.1998.00122.x

The eyes from six Greenland sharks, Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch & Schneider), infected with the parasitic copepod Ommatokoita elongata (Grant) were collected in the Arctic waters of Victor Bay, North‐west Territories, Canada, for study. Transformed adult female copepods, one per eye, were fir...