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XVIII.—On Pennella balænopteræ: a Crustacean, parasitic on a Finner Whale, Balænoptera musculus

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William Turner
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In September 1903 I received a bottle containing twelve specimens of a large parasite presented to me by Mr Chr. Castberg, the manager of a Norwegian whaling company which has established a fishing station at Ronasvoe in the north of Shetland. In his letters Mr Castberg stated that the parasites were attached to a Finner whale, which, from its size, the mottled character of the whalebone and the pointed head, was obviously a Razorback—Balænoptera musculus. The parasites were numerous, and were fixed to the back of the whale, and the attached end penetrated through the skin into the blubber. Although Mr Castberg had seen many hundred whales, this is the first occasion on which he had met with this form of parasite.

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , 1906 , pp. 409 - 434
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1906

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