Proseriate turbellarians (Platyhelminthes: Rhabditophora) in the egg mass of the commercially important horsehair crab, Erimacrus isenbeckii (Crustacea: Decapoda), from Hokkaido, Japan

ABSTRACT We report a complex community of ectosymbionts in the egg mass of the horsehair crab Erimacrus isenbeckii (Brandt, 1848) from Hokkaido, Japan. We examined eight individual crab pleopods containing eggs and 56 pleopods without eggs. The following ectosymbionts were found: 207 turbellarians,...

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Main Authors: Robert K. Okazaki, Hiroshi Kajihara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia 2024-11-01
Series:Zoologia (Curitiba)
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702024000100707&lng=en&tlng=en
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