Some new data on the intermediate and paratenic hosts of the nematode Anguillicola crassus Kuwahara, Niimi et Itagaki, 1974 (Dracunculoidea), a swimbladder parasite of eels

Title:

Some new data on the intermediate and paratenic hosts of the nematode Anguillicola crassus Kuwahara, Niimi et Itagaki, 1974 (Dracunculoidea), a swimbladder parasite of eels

Creator:

Moravec, F. and Konecny, R.

Identifier:

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Subject:

Nematoda, Anguillicola, Ostracoda, development, eel, fish, intermediate host, and paratenic host

Type:

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Format:

print

Description:

Three species of planktonie crustaceans, Cyclops strenuus and Macrocyclops alhidus (Copcpoda) and Notodromas monacha (Ostracoda), were experimentally infected with the eggs and second-stage larvae of the swimbladder nematode Anguillicola crassus originating from eels from Neusiedler Lake in Austria. At 20-22°C, third-stage larvae of the parasite developed in all these invertebrate hosts within 16-20 days p.i. Ostracods harbouring the nematode third-stage larvae (33 days p.i.) were fed to small eels (Anguilla anguilla), while infected copepods (20 days p.i.) to seven other fish species. By these experiments, the larvae from ostracods proved to be infective for the definitive host and the ostracod was thus confirmed as a true intermediate host of Anguillicola crassus. Notodromas monacha represents a new experimental intermediate host of A. crassus and the second known invertebrate other than a copepod in which the larval development of this nematode up to the infective stage takes place. Five species of fish, cyprinids Tinca tinea, Alhumus alburnus, Gobio gobio and Albumoides bipunctatus (the latter representing a new host record), and guppy, Poecilia reticulata, were found to serve as experimental paratenic hosts for A. crassus, in which the live nematode infective larvae were recorded 49 days p.i.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Coverage:

65-70 and 67-72

Source:

Folia parasitologica | 1994 Volume:41 | Number:1

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