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Philometra

Description

** Philometra sp.

Sites: body cavity, circulatory system, eye, gills, intestine

Hosts: Aplodinotus grunniens (7, 13); Aulorhynchus flavidus (5); Catostomus catostomus (9); Catostomus commersonii (10, 11, 14); Coregonus artedi (3, 4); Coregonus clupeaformis (3, 4); Esox niger (2); Hypentelium nigricans (11); Lepomis gibbosus (1); Micropterus dolomieu (8); Micropterus salmoides (12); Morone saxatilis (15); Osmerus mordax (4); Perca flavescens (2, 7, 8); Pholis laeta (5); Platichthys stellatus (5, 6); Prosopium cylindraceum (3, 4, 14); Salvelinus fontinalis (2)

Distribution: Ontario, New Brunswick, Pacific, Quebec

Records: 1. Bangham 1941 (ON); 2. Fantham & Porter 1948 (QC); 3. Bangham 1951 (ON); 4. Bangham 1955 (ON); 5. Arai 1967a (PA); 6. Arai 1969 (PA); 7. Dechtiar 1972a (ON); 8. Dechtiar 1972b (ON); 9. Hanek & Molnar 1974 (QC); 10. Molnar et al. 1974 (ON); 11. Mackie et al. 1983 (ON); 12. Dechtiar & Christie 1988 (ON); 13. Dechtiar & Nepszy 1988 (ON); 14. Dechtiar et al. 1989 (ON); 15. Séguin et al. 2011 (NB, QC)

Notes

Published as part of Arai, Hisao P. & Smith, John W., 2016, Guide to the Parasites of Fishes of Canada Part V: Nematoda, pp. 1-274 in Zootaxa 4185 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4185.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/165530

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Philometra
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Bangham, R. V. (1941) Parasites of fish of Algonquin Park lakes. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 70, 161 - 171. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1577 / 1548 - 8659 (1940) 70 [161: pofoap] 2.0. co; 2
  • Fantham, H. B. & Porter, A. (1948) The parasitic fauna of vertebrates in certain Canadian fresh waters, with some remarks on their ecology, structure and importance. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Series B, 117, 609 - 649. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1948. tb 00543. x
  • Bangham, R. V. (1951) Parasite records by location in 1951: Manitoulin Island and surrounding waters. University of Toronto, Ontario Fisheries Research Laboratory Report, 27 pp.
  • Bangham, R. V. (1955) Studies on fish parasites of Lake Huron and Manitoulin Island. American Midland Naturalist, 53, 184 - 194. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 2422308
  • Arai, H. P. (1967 a) A preliminary report on a study of the parasites of Burke Channel, British Columbia. Fisheries Research Board of Canada Manuscript Reports, 925, 26 pp.
  • Arai, H. P. (1969) Preliminary report on the parasites of certain marine fishes of British Columbia. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 26, 2319 - 2337. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / f 69 - 226
  • Dechtiar, A. O. (1972 a) Parasites of fish from Lake of the Woods, Ontario. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 29, 275 - 283. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / f 72 - 046
  • Dechtiar, A. O. (1972 b) New parasite records for Lake Erie fish. Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Technical Report, No. 17, 20 pp.
  • Mackie, G. L., Morton, W. B. & Ferguson, M. S. (1983) Fish parasitism in a new impoundment and differences upstream and downstream. Hydrobiologia, 99, 197 - 205. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / bf 00008771
  • Dechtiar, A. O. & Christie, W. J. (1988) Survey of the parasite fauna of Lake Ontario fishes, 1961 to 1971. In: Nepszy, S. J. (Ed.), Parasites of Fishes in the Canadian waters of the Great Lakes. Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Technical Report, No. 51, 66 - 95.
  • Dechtiar, A. O. & Nepszy, S. J. (1988) Survey of the parasite fauna of selected fish species from Lake Erie, 1970 ̶ 1975. In: Nepszy, S. J. (Ed.), Parasites of Fishes in the Canadian waters of the Great Lakes. Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Technical Report, No. 51, 49 - 65.
  • Dechtiar, A. O., MacLean, J. A. & Nepszy, S. J. (1989) Parasites of Fishes from Algonquin Park lakes. Ontario Fisheries, Technical Report. Series, No. 29, 10 pp.
  • Seguin, G., Bouchard, F., Measures, L. N., Uhland, C. F. & Lair, S. (2011) Infections with Philometra sp. associated with mortalities in wild-hatched captive-raised striped bass, Morone saxatilis (Walbaum). Journal of Fish Diseases, 34, 475 - 481. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2761.2011.01258. x