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oysters. Other species are Stylochtis ellipticus 

 commonly attacking barnacles, and Hoplo- 

 plana inquUina, attacking the oyster drill (Thais 

 floridana). Hoploplana inquilina was studied at 

 Barataria Bay, Louisiana, by Schechter (1943), 

 and the others were reported from Apalachicola 

 Bay, Florida, by Pearse and Wharton (1938). 



Another helminth recorded from the Gulf is 

 a nemertean, Carcinonemertes carcinophila (Kol- 

 liker 1845) Coe, 1902, a variety of which, C. c. 

 imminuta, was found living on the egg masses of 

 Callinectes sapidus, blue crab, at Grand Isle, 

 Louisiana. 



Note.— Bibliography follows chapter on Nematoda, p. 358. 



