Abstract
Abstract A specimen of the endangered hawksbill sea turtle, illegally speared and killed near La Parguera, Puerto Rico, was examined for helminths during postmortem examination. Four microscaphidiids, Angiodictyum mooreae n. sp., A. parallelum, A. anteroporum, and Octangium sagitta; one spirorchiid, Learedius learedi; and one pronocephalid, Cricocephalus rnegastomus, were detected. Angiodictyum mooreae may be distinguished from all known species of Angiodictyum in possessing large prominent marginal bodies. It is most similar to A. parallelum but differs in having a genital pore located immediately posterior to the oral sucker and in having 25–26 marginal bodies on each side. The findings of A. parallelum and A. anteroporum in an Atlantic hawksbill turtle constitute new host records and, for the latter parasite, a new geographic locality record.
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