METACERCARIAE OF CENTROCESTUS-FORMOSANUS (NISHIGORI, 1924) (TREMATODA) IN FRESH-WATER FISHES IN MEXICO AND THEIR TRANSMISSION BY THE THIARID SNAIL MELANOIDES-TUBERCULATA

Authors
SALGADOMALDONADO G RODRIGUEZVARGAS MI CAMPOSPEREZ JJ
Citation
G. Salgadomaldonado et al., METACERCARIAE OF CENTROCESTUS-FORMOSANUS (NISHIGORI, 1924) (TREMATODA) IN FRESH-WATER FISHES IN MEXICO AND THEIR TRANSMISSION BY THE THIARID SNAIL MELANOIDES-TUBERCULATA, Studies on neotropical fauna and environment, 30(4), 1995, pp. 245-250
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology
Journal title
Studies on neotropical fauna and environment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01650521
Volume
30
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
245 - 250
Database
ISI
SICI code
0165-0521(1995)30:4<245:MOC(1(>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
We report for the first time Centrocestus formosanus (Nishigori, 1924) Price, 1932 (Trematoda: Heterophyidae) metacercariae parasitizing nat ural populations of Xiphophorus helleri (Poeciliidae) and Gobiomorus d ormitor (Gobiidae) in Mexico. Adult forms confirming the specific iden tity were recovered from experimental infections of domestic chicks an d laboratory mice. The first intermediate host of this parasite is Mel anoides tuberculata, its role in transmission of the infection was ass essed by experiments with aquarium Guppies and Cercariae shed from nat urally infected snails. Both, the snail and the trematode were introdu ced in the American continent.