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New Parasitic Species of Colonial Rhinogradentia

New Parasitic Species of Colonial Rhinogradentia Russian Journal of Marine Biology, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2004, p. 150. Original Russian Text Copyright © 2004 by Biologiya Morya, Bukashkina. PRELIMINARY COMMUNICATION V. V. Bukashkina The Institute of Mythozoology of the Academy of Supernatural Sciences For the past several years, my colleagues and I have studied mysterious colonial animals—the parasites of hermit crabs. Their taxonomic position was unclear for a long time until M.I. Kashkina’s recent report on a new colonial nose-walker, Dendronasus sp., [1], which pro- vided us with the idea that the parasite we found in crabs belongs to the marvelous, highly morphologi- cally diverse group of Rhinogradentia discovered by Stümpke [2]. Careful isolation of several parasitic colonies from the host and their subsequent in vitro cultivation in hemolymph obtained from intact hermit crabs provided us with the unique opportunity to make vital photomi- crographs of them, one of which is presented in the fig- ure. The major features of the external anatomy of all blastozooids can be discerned and suggest their relation to the Nose-walkers (order Rhinogradentia). It is note- worthy that the present species possesses traits missing in other nose-walkers, more precisely, the almost com- plete reduction of the limbs, mouth, and the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Russian Journal of Marine Biology Springer Journals

New Parasitic Species of Colonial Rhinogradentia

Russian Journal of Marine Biology , Volume 30 (2) – Oct 18, 2004

New Parasitic Species of Colonial Rhinogradentia

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Russian Journal of Marine Biology, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2004, p. 150. Original Russian Text Copyright © 2004 by Biologiya Morya, Bukashkina. PRELIMINARY COMMUNICATION V. V. Bukashkina The Institute of Mythozoology of the Academy of Supernatural Sciences For the past several years, my colleagues and I have studied mysterious colonial animals—the parasites of hermit crabs. Their taxonomic position was unclear for a long time until M.I. Kashkina’s recent report on a new colonial...
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2004 by MAIK “Nauka/Interperiodica”
Subject
Life Sciences; Freshwater & Marine Ecology
ISSN
1063-0740
eISSN
1608-3377
DOI
10.1023/B:RUMB.0000025995.00899.e9
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Abstract

Russian Journal of Marine Biology, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2004, p. 150. Original Russian Text Copyright © 2004 by Biologiya Morya, Bukashkina. PRELIMINARY COMMUNICATION V. V. Bukashkina The Institute of Mythozoology of the Academy of Supernatural Sciences For the past several years, my colleagues and I have studied mysterious colonial animals—the parasites of hermit crabs. Their taxonomic position was unclear for a long time until M.I. Kashkina’s recent report on a new colonial nose-walker, Dendronasus sp., [1], which pro- vided us with the idea that the parasite we found in crabs belongs to the marvelous, highly morphologi- cally diverse group of Rhinogradentia discovered by Stümpke [2]. Careful isolation of several parasitic colonies from the host and their subsequent in vitro cultivation in hemolymph obtained from intact hermit crabs provided us with the unique opportunity to make vital photomi- crographs of them, one of which is presented in the fig- ure. The major features of the external anatomy of all blastozooids can be discerned and suggest their relation to the Nose-walkers (order Rhinogradentia). It is note- worthy that the present species possesses traits missing in other nose-walkers, more precisely, the almost com- plete reduction of the limbs, mouth, and the

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Published: Oct 18, 2004

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