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A fact from Driocephalus appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 May 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the parasitic copepod Driocephalus cerebrinoxius burrows into the brains of sharks through their noses?
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
Source: Diebakate, Cheikhna; Raibaut, André; Kabata, Zbigniew (1997). "Thamnocephalus cerebrinoxius n. g., n. sp. (Copepoda: Sphyriidae), a parasite in the nasal capsules of Leptocharias smithii (Müller & Henle, 1839) (Pisces: Leptochariidae) off the coast of Senegal". Systematic Parasitology. 38 (3): 231–235. doi.org/10.1023/A:1005840205269.
ALT1: ... that the parasiticcopepodDriocephalus cerebrinoxius burrows into the brains of sharks through their noses? Source: Diebakate, Cheikhna; Raibaut, André; Kabata, Zbigniew (1997). "Thamnocephalus cerebrinoxius n. g., n. sp. (Copepoda: Sphyriidae), a parasite in the nasal capsules of Leptocharias smithii (Müller & Henle, 1839) (Pisces: Leptochariidae) off the coast of Senegal". Systematic Parasitology. 38 (3): 231–235. doi.org/10.1023/A:1005840205269.
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Comment: Open to other suggestions for hooks, I think this topic has a lot of potential. ALT1 is more exciting, but a bit simplistic...
Created by Ethmostigmus (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
Interesting:
QPQ: Done.
Overall: Technically it looks like the sources say "nervous system" but if they're entering through the nose, it sounds like brain is accurate. AGF on hoof references, and the other refs seem to say the same. Article long enough and new enough with no copyvio. Either hook works, I leave it to the promoter's discretion. BuySomeApples (talk) 03:08, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Cheers BuySomeApples, I forgot that paper is paywalled - the publicly available abstract states The most characteristic feature of this copepod is its holdfast of numerous, profusely branching dendrites that penetrate the olfactory lobe of the host’s brain. This type of host-parasite relationship is unique among all known parasitic copepods, but if the promoter wants to double check (which I would certainly encourage!), the full text is accessible on Springer Nature Link via WP:TWL and discusses this in a bit more detail. Ethmostigmus 🌿 (talk | contribs) 04:07, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
