[Crustacean parasites and epizoa of the sperm whale, Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 1758 (cetacea, Odontoceti), in the Gulf of Lion (Western Mediterranean)].
The authors point out for the first time, fixation of the Cirriped Conchoderma virgatum (Spengler, 1790) on an Amphipod Cyamid parasite of a young sperm-whale, Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 1758, stranded on the gulf of Lion coast (Western Mediterranean). Using the scanning electron microscope, they furnish precisions on the morphology and they furnish some observations concerning reproduction and biogeography of this Amphipod, Neocyamus physeteris (Pouchet, 1888).
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Laboratoire de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Université de Perpignan, 52, avenue de Villeneuve, F-66860 Perpignan, France. oliver@univ-perp.fr
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D000818:Animals; D003386:Brachyura / Q000145:classification* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008522:Mediterranean Sea; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D014907:Whales / Q000469:parasitology*