Pseudogymnophallus alcae gen. n. et sp. n. (Trematoda: Gymnophallidae) from Alcids (Charadriiformes) in Subarctic Seas

• Main Author: Hoberg, Eric P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1981
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Ornithology; Parasitology; Bering Sea; Chukchi Sea; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; The Arch; Lunda; Alca torda; Chukchi; fratercula; North Atlantic; Razorbill; Subarctic; Alaska
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/parasitologyfacpubs/806; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/parasitologyfacpubs/article/1817/viewcontent/Hoberg_1981_PHSW_Pseudogymnophallus_alcae_gen_nsp_n_Trematoda_DC_ver.pdf

Pseudogymnophallus alcae gen. n. et sp. n. is described for trematodes from alcids (Charadriiformes: Alcidae) from the North Pacific region (Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, and Chukchi Sea): horned puffin, Fratercula corniculuta; tufted puffin, Lunda cirrhuta; parakeet auklet, Cvclorrhvnchus psittacula, and least auklet, Aethia pusilla; and from the western North Atlantic Ocean, (Gulf of St. Lawrence): razorbill, Alca torda. Pseudogymnophallus is distinguished from other genera of Gymnophallidae by the intertesticular position of the ovary; a cylindrical, undivided seminal vesicle; and by an intestinal diverticulum dorsal to the arch of each cecum.