| morphological and genetic identification of anisakis paggiae (nematoda: anisakidae) in dwarf sperm whale kogia sima from brazilian waters. | anisakid nematodes have been identified in a wide variety of fish and marine mammal species. in brazil, anisakis physeteris, a. insignis, a. typica, a. nascetti, and those of the a. simplex complex have been reported infecting fishes and cetaceans. in this study, specimens collected from a dwarf sperm whale kogia sima (owen, 1866) stranded on the northeastern coast of brazil were identified through morphological and genetic analyses as a. paggiae. anisakids were examined through differential int ... | 2015 | 25751853 |