title: Redescription of Dicyemennea nouveli (Phylum: Dicyemida) from Enteroctopus dofleini (Mollusca: Cephalopoda: Octopoda).
abstract: A species of dicyemid mesozoan is redescribed from the giant Pacific octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini (Wülker, 1910), collected off Iwase in Toyama Bay, Honshu, Japan. Dicyemennea nouveli McConnaughey, 1959, is a large species that reaches about 12,000 microm in length. This species lives in folds of the renal appendages. The vermiform stages are characterized as having 30-41 peripheral cells, a conical calotte, and an axial cell that extends to the middle of the metapolar cells. An anterior abortive axial cell is present in vermiform embryos. Full-grown vermiform embryos have as many as 4 agametes. Infusoriform embryos consist of 39 cells; 2 nuclei are present in each urn cell and the refringent bodies are solid.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan. hfuruya@bio.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Hidetaka
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Furuya
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D007448:Invertebrates / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*; D008297:Male; D049831:Octopodiformes / Q000469:parasitology*; D010140:Pacific Ocean