The genus Anoplodiscus was described even more poorly 

 than Anoplocotyle (Palombi, 1942b, 1943) and it is possible that it is 

 correctly attributed to Ancyrocephalinae; however, this can be stated 

 with certainty only after subsequent findings. 



3. Subfamily Linguadactylinae Bychowsky, subfam. nov . 



(Figs. 21, 110, 268-271) 



Tetraonchinae Monticelli, 1903, part. 



Dactylogyridae having an attaching apparatus with 14 edge, 

 4 nniddle hooks and one connecting plate between the first pair of middle 

 hooks. The intestinal trunks have lateral outgrowths terminating 



blindly at the posterior end. The testis is follicular. The vaginal duct 

 is absent; there is a uterus. 



Parasites of marine Gadidae 



The type and only genus, Linguadactyla Brinkmann, 1940 



The only species known thus far, L. molvae, was described by 

 the author with a great degree of completeness and accuracy. The 

 errors in his work are not numerous. Thus, in describing the attaching 

 armature he points to the presence of 12 (14?) edge hooks: actually 

 there are 14 of them (Fig. 268) as we succeeded in counting on a young sample 

 in our collection. The large middle hooks are described and expressed 

 inaccurately in the work of 1940; in the work of 1952 their figures are 

 more correct. In describing the young wornn, Brinkmann indicates the 

 presence in it of one pair of eyes, actually the wornns have 2 pairs; 

 however, the front pair is very small and contain only a few pigmented 

 granules. Adult worms indeed, do not have any eyes and we did not 

 even find traces of them in a nvimber of sections. During the study of 

 the anatomy the author inaccurately depicts "seminal receptacles, " 

 representing them as having only one duct entering into the terminal 

 part of the unpaired vitelline duct (Brinkmann, 1940, Figs. 7 and 11). 

 Actually, each of the three "seminal receptacles" has numerous thin 

 ducts which connect it with the cavity of the vitelline duct. There are 

 also other small errors which do not play a principal role, as for 

 instance the inaccurate description of the vitellaria, etc. As p. 353 



Brinkmann himself correctly indicated, L. molvae has certain peculi- 

 arities of structure which are not encountered in any other known 

 monogenetic trematode at the present tinne. This pertains to the 

 female sex system; thus, a special correlation between the right and 



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