WoRMS taxon details
original description
Ronald, K. (1957). THE METAZOAN PARASITES OF THE HETEROSOMATA OF THE GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE: I. ECHINORHYNCHUS LAURENTIANUS SP. NOV. (ACANTHOCEPHALA: ECHINORHYNCHIDAE). <em>Canadian Journal of Zoology.</em> 35(3): 437-439., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z57-034 [details]
basis of record
Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Arai, H. P. (1989). Guide to the Parasites of Fishes of Canada. Part III. Acanthocephala. L. Margolis and Z. Kabata (Eds). <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 107: 1-90. [details]
additional source
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
From other sources
Diet obligate intestinal parasites that lack their own digestive system. [details]
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), and Middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands) [details]
Habitat endoparasite found in Mallotus villosus [details]
Reproduction dioecious. Eggs are passed through the definitive vertebrate host and remain free in the environment until ingested by an intermediate host (Amphipoda, Isopoda, Copepoda, Ostracoda) where they hatch. [details]
remark definitive hosts include: Glyptocephalus cynoglossus, Hippoglossoides platessoides, Hippoglossus hippoglossus, Pleuronectes americanus, P. ferrugineus, P. putnami, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides. [details]
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