Bingo! What a delight, in memory of the imago of Paul Illg.
Congratulations,
Colin, in Friday Harbor
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> On Jun 22, 2018, at 11:08 PM, Barbara Mikac <mikacbarbara from gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi!
> I just got the answer from Joachim Langaneck (University of Pisa) that the
> animal is a parasitic copepode of the genus Pennella. It is parasite on big
> fishes and morfologically very different from usual copepodes because of
> his parasitic way of life. Mistery solved! :-) I would have never said it's
> a copepode.
> Thank you everybody for you help.
>> Barbara
>> On 22 Jun 2018 3:33 pm, "Alexander Muir" <a.muir from nhm.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Dear Barbara,
>> The worm appears to be in a transparent tube partially covered in
> vegetation. Was the head embedded in a wound on a dead fish? Fauchald's
> Pink Book says (page 104) that some onuphids may actively hunt for debris
> to eat.
>> I have seen oligochaetes with branchiae at the tail end of the body, but I
> haven't got a modern onuphid reference book in front of me at the moment.
>> Alex.
>> Mr. A.I. Muir,
> Invertebrates Division, Life Sciences Department, The Natural History
> Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, LONDON SW7 5BD, UNITED KINGDOM
> Tel: +44 (0)20 7942 5609
>>>> -----Original Message-----
> From: annelida-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu [mailto:
>annelida-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu] On Behalf Of Barbara Mikac
> Sent: 22 June 2018 14:03
> To: Annelida from magpie.bio.indiana.edu> Subject: [Annelida] unknown wormlike fish parasite
>> Dear colleagues,
>> My friend from a Natural History Museum in Rijeka (Croatia) sent me photos
> of this parasite found on a marine fish Lichia amia. We are wondering what
> it could be. Could you try to help us, please?
>> The fish itself was in quite bad state and the parasite was attached to its
> ventral side protruding out of the belly. It is 11 cm long, full of blood
> and little bit similar to a leech, but having some kind of dense
> tentacules/cirri along the body (as you will se on the photos).
>> If you think it could be something interesting and need photos of body
> details we can make them (the specimen is conserved in alcohol).
>> Courious to hear your opinion and thanks for the help.
>> Barbara
>> _____________
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