Data from: Echinorhynchus brayi n. sp. (Acanthocephala: Echinorhynchidae) from Pachycara crassiceps (Roule) (Zoarcidae), a deep-sea fish

• Main Authors: Wayland, Matthew T., Sommerville, Christina, Gibson, David I.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Life sciences; medicine and health care; Pacific; Porcupine Seabight; Huffman; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-tt-nl92; https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:84171

Echinorhynchus brayi n. sp. (Palaeacanthocephala: Echinorhynchidae) is described from Pachycara crassiceps (Roule) (Zoarcidae) from the Porcupine Seabight, Northeast Atlantic. The new species closely resembles E. canyonensis Huffman & Kliever, 1977, a parasite of a Pacific zoarcid, but has longer lemnisci, larger eggs and larger testes. E. brayi n. sp. can be readily differentiated from the ten other Echinorhynchus spp. recorded from deep-sea fishes (E. abyssicola, E. gadi, E. longiproboscis, E. malacocephali, E. melanoglaeae, E. muraenolepisi, E. petrotschenkoi, E. sebastolobi, E. trachyrinci and E. truttae), because it has fewer hooks per longitudinal row.