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LONDON. Linnean Society, Mar. 20.—C. Tate Regan: A new Ceratioid fish (Caulophryne sp.), female with male, from off Madeira. The fish represents a new species of the genus Caulophryne, distinguished from C. jordani Goode and Bean by the greater number of dorsal and anal rays and by the filaments on the stem of the illicium. Although distended by a recently swallowed fish larger than itself, it took a bait, and was caught on a long line off Madeira. The specimen is a female, 210 (145+65) mm. long, with a dwarfed and parasitic male 21 (16+5) mm. long attached to its abdomen. Lieut.—Colonel J. Stephenson: On an Oligochsete worm parasitic in frogs of the genus Phrynomerus. A specimen of a Nigerian frog, Phrynomerus microps, recently examined had a number of small worms hanging out in a cluster of about a dozen from the anterior angle of each eye and from under the neighbouring part of the lower lid. The worms belonged to a new species of the genus Nais of the freshwater family Naididae. In a second species of the genus Phrynomerus (bifasciatus), from JBeira, Portuguese East Africa, the Harderian (lacrymal) glands were found to be distended and transformed into a sac containing a number of small worms; these belonged to the same species as the preceding. This discovery prompted the stripping of the mucous membrane from the roof of the mouth of the first frog, from Nigeria, when it was discovered that in it also the Harderian glands contained a number of the worms. Oligochseta are rare as external, and still rarer as internal parasites.
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Societies and Academies. Nature 125, 621–623 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125621a0
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