Filtered By:
Source: Zoological Science
Nutrition: Fish
This page shows you your search results in order of date.
Order by Relevance | Date
Total 780 results found since Jan 2013.
A New Species of < em > Branchellion < /em > (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) Parasitizing the Gills of Short-Tail Stingrays (Batoidea: Dasyatidae) from the West Pacific
Zoolog Sci. 2023 Aug;40(4):308-313. doi: 10.2108/zs220057.ABSTRACTA new fish leech, Branchellion brevicaudatae sp. n., is described based on specimens parasitizing the gills of the short-tail stingray, Bathytoshia brevicaudata (Hutton, 1875), collected from Japanese waters. The new species can be distinguished from other congeners by having: i) pulsating vesicles emerging from posterior base of branchiae, one pair per somite; ii) dorsal white spots, not arranged in longitudinal row; and iii) blackish body. A phylogenetic tree based on partial sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene from the new s...
Source: Zoological Science - July 31, 2023 Category: Zoology Authors: Naoto Jimi Junpei Shinji Natsumi Hookabe Masanori Okanishi Sau Pinn Woo Takafumi Nakano Source Type: research
