Data from: Echinorhynchus brayi n. sp. (Acanthocephala: Echinorhynchidae) from Pachycara crassiceps (Roule) (Zoarcidae), a deep-sea fish

Echinorhynchus brayi n. sp. (Palaeacanthocephala: Echinorhynchidae) is
described from Pachycara crassiceps (Roule) (Zoarcidae) from the Porcupine
Seabight, Northeast Atlantic. The new species closely resembles E.
canyonensis Huffman & Kliever, 1977, a parasite of a Pacific
zoarcid, but has longer lemnisci, larger eggs and larger testes. E. brayi
n. sp. can be readily differentiated from the ten other Echinorhynchus
spp. recorded from deep-sea fishes (E. abyssicola, E. gadi, E.
longiproboscis, E. malacocephali, E. melanoglaeae, E. muraenolepisi, E.
petrotschenkoi, E. sebastolobi, E. trachyrinci and E. truttae), because it
has fewer hooks per longitudinal row.