Morphological observations on three Baltic species of Corynosoma Lühe, 1905 (Acanthocephala, Polymorphidae)

• Published in: European Journal of Taxonomy
• Main Authors: Sonja Leidenberger, Sven Boström, Matthew T. Wayland
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Consortium of European Natural History Museums 2019
• Subjects: Baltic Sea; grey seals; ringed seals; sem; thorny-headed worms; Zoology; QL1-991; Botany; QK1-989; Montreuil; Pusa hispida
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2019.514; https://doaj.org/article/6017d6b66b12476e86e8f7a83ef3c184

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...