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The ectoparasitic barnacle Anelasma (Cirripedia, Thoracica, Lepadomorpha) on the shark Centroscyllium nigrum (Chondrichthyes, Squalidae) from the Pacific sub-Antarctic

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We report the occurrence of the ectoparasitic lepadomorph barnacle Anelasma sp. on the deep-sea squaloid shark Centroscyllium nigrum from the Pacific sub-Antarctic off southern Chile. Anelasma has previously been documented only from the northeast Atlantic on the squaloid shark Etmopterus spinax; this new record extends the known range of Anelasma into the Pacific Ocean and into the Southern Hemisphere, and documents a new host for this parasitic barnacle.

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  1. Department of Integrative Biology and the Museum of Paleontology, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Douglas J. Long & Benjamin M. Waggoner

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Long, D.J., Waggoner, B.M. The ectoparasitic barnacle Anelasma (Cirripedia, Thoracica, Lepadomorpha) on the shark Centroscyllium nigrum (Chondrichthyes, Squalidae) from the Pacific sub-Antarctic. Syst Parasitol 26, 133–136 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00009220

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