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. 2022 May 19;29:28. doi: 10.1051/parasite/2022028

Table 3.

Measurements of Cyclocotyla bellones from different hosts and localities.

Source Dollfus, 1922 [33] Dollfus, 1922 [34] Euzet & Trilles, 1961 [36] Lopez-Roman & Guevara Pozo 1976 [61] Radujkovic & Euzet 1989 [80] Present study
Host Ceratothoa oestroides on Trachurus trachurus Ceratothoa oestroides on Boops boops Isopod on Boops boops and Spicara maena Ceratothoa oestroides on Boops boops Cymothoidae, buccal cavity of Spicara smaris Cymothoidae, buccal cavity of Boops boops
Locality Spain, Atlantic Ocean Monaco, Mediterranean France, Mediterranean Alboran sea, Mediterranean Montenegro, Mediterranean Algeria, Mediterranean
Body length 3000 3000–8000 3600–7570 3000–8000 3900 (3150–6628)
Haptor length 1273 (557–17,729)
Anterior lobe length 650 2000 1800–3600 1970 (800–3207)
Total length 5046 (5100–8400)
Total width 2500 1000–4000 1580–1600 1000–4000 1536 (450–2300)
Clamps length 400* 200*
Clamps width
Buccal organ length 120* 42 (23–55)
Buccal organ width 44 (28–71)
Pharynx length 180 58 (38–74)
Pharynx width 110 51 (31–61)
Atrium length 44 (32–51)
Atrium width 46 (30–63)
Number of hooks 6** 6 6–8
Genital hooks length 60 17 (14–18)
Distance pharynx-anterior end 188 (101–308)
Distance genital atrium anterior end 500 383 (184–548)
Number of testes 40–90 40–90
*

Diameter.

**

Number deduced from drawings. Note that all localities are from the Mediterranean Sea except Dollfus 1922, Atlantic.