Some helminth and copepod parasites of three rajid species from the continental slope of the north-eastern Norwegian Sea

Authors
Rokicki, J Bjelland, O Berland, B
Citation
J. Rokicki et al., Some helminth and copepod parasites of three rajid species from the continental slope of the north-eastern Norwegian Sea, ACT PARASIT, 46(1), 2001, pp. 12-17
Citations number
39
Categorie Soggetti
Biology
Journal title
ACTA PARASITOLOGICA
ISSN journal
12302821 → ACNP
Volume
46
Issue
1
Year of publication
2001
Pages
12 - 17
Database
ISI
SICI code
1230-2821(200101)46:1<12:SHACPO>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
Nine helminth and two copepod parasite species, totalling 1 323 specimens, were recorded from a total of 69 skates - 47 Raja radiata, 11 R. hyperborea and 11 Bathyraja spinicauda - trawled in deep water on the continental slo pe between northern Norway and Spitsbergen in May 1996. Monogenea: Rajoncho cotyle batis, Pseudoacanthocotyle verrilli; Digenea: Otodistomum cestoides, Gonocerca phycidis; Cestoda: Echeneibothrium affine, Pseudanthobothrium ha nseni; Nematoda: Anisakis simplex larva, Pseudanisakis tricopula, Contracae cum/Phocascaris sp. larva; Copepoda: Schistobrachia ramosa, Lernaeopodina l ongimana. Endopara-sites and food preferences are discussed.