Morphological observations on three baltic species of Corynosoma lühe, 1905 (acanthocephala, polymorphidae) ...

• Main Authors: Leidenberger, S, Boström, S, Wayland, MT
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle 2019
• Subjects: Baltic Sea; grey seals; ringed seals; SEM; thorny-headed worms; Montreuil; Pusa hispida
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.39507; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/292357

Necropsies of Baltic grey (Halichoerus grypus) and ringed seals (Pusa hispida) presented a rare opportunity to study their acanthocephalan fauna. Both species hosted adults of three species of the genus Corynosoma Lühe, 1904, namely C. magdaleni Montreuil, 1958, C. semerme (Forsell, 1904) Lühe 1911...