[Diphyllobothrium lobodoni sp. n. (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidae)--a parasite of the crabeater seal].

The new cestode species is described from the intestine of the crab eater seal Lobodon carcinophagus living in Pacific region of Antarctic. It differs from other diphyllobothriids by clear wavy lateral margins of the body. It is close to D. scoticum by the presence of uterine sack, but it has larger size of the body, lesser craspedotity of segments, lesser size of scolex, longer neck, thinner tegument, 3 times thicker layers of longitudinal and transversal muscles, 2 times greater number of testicles (per transversal section of the segments), another form and position of the bursa of cirrus and of the testicular vesicle, larger uterine sack consisting about one third of the total uterine volume.