A Hydroid Parasitic on a Fish

J. Fewkes

DOI:10.1038/036604B0

Corpus ID: 4078889

A Hydroid Parasitic on a Fish

@article{FewkesAHP,
  title={A Hydroid Parasitic on a Fish},
  author={J. Fewkes},
  journal={Nature},
  volume={36},
  pages={604-605}
}

J. Fewkes

Biology

Nature

DURING my studies the past summer at the Newport Marine Laboratory I captured a single specimen of an osseous fish, Seriola zonata, Cuv., which exhibits a most interesting example of parasitism or possibly commensalism. Upon the outer wall of its body an extraordinary hydroid was found to have attached itself. As this mode of life is unique for a hydroid, it is thought that a mention of it, and a statement of the peculiar modifications which the hydroid has suffered, may be not without interest… CONTINUE READING

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