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THE systematic position of the genus Sarcotaces, according to Caiman1, is quite obscure, for as a result of the extreme degeneration shown by the parasite most of the characteristic features have disappeared. Although S. arcticus is not infrequent in the blue ling, Molva abyssorum, appearing as dark oval-shaped cysts lying among the myotomes of the lateral line, it has only been very briefly referred to by Collett2 and Hjort3, who suggested that it was a Cirripede. Two other species have been recorded, S. verrucosus by Olsson (1873)5 from Acanthurus in the West Indies, and S. pacificus from Antennarius at Misaki, Japan, by Komai4, who suggested that it belonged to the Copepoda.
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Komai, T., Mem. Coll. Sci. Kyoto., B, 1, No. 3 (1924).
Olsson, quoted by Hjort, loc. cit.
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AITKEN, A. An Undescribed Stage of Sarcotaces. Nature 150, 180–181 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150180b0
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