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Philonema

Description

** Philonema sp.

Sites: body cavity, peritoneum, stomach, testes

Hosts: Acrocheilus alutaceus (6); Catostomus commersonii (17); Coregonus artedi (2, 19); Coregonus clupeaformis (15, 16); Coregonus sp. (5); Esox lucius (5); Oncorhynchus clarkii (14); Oncorhynchus kisutch (12, 13); Oncorhynchus mykiss (15, 16, 18); Oncorhynchus nerka (10, 11, 15, 16, 20); Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (12, 13); Prosopium cylindraceum (6); Prosopium williamsoni (6, 11, 15, 16); Salvelinus alpinus (7, 8); Salvelinus fontinalis (4, 9); Salvelinus malma (15, 16); Salvelinus namaycush (1, 2, 3, 5); Thymallus arcticus (15, 16)

Distribution: Alberta, Labrador, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Pacific, Quebec

Records: 1. MacLulich 1943 (ON); 2. Miller 1945 (AB, NT); 3. Miller & Kennedy 1948 (NT); 4. Munroe 1949 (LB, QC); 5. Rawson 1951 (NT); 6. Bangham & Adams 1954 (BC); 7. Andrews & Lear 1956 (LB); 8.

Thomson 1957 (NT); 9. Pippy 1965 (NF); 10. Wood 1965 (BC); 11. Meredith 1966 (BC); 12. Arai 1967a (PA); 13, Arai 1969 (PA); 14. Hoskins et al. 1976 (BC); 15. Anon. 1978 (BC); 16. Arai & Mudry 1983 (BC); 17. Poole 1983 (MB); 18. Margolis 1984 (PA); 19. Nelson & Paetz 1992 (AB); 20 Després et al. 1995 (BC)

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 pages 57-58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4185.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/165530

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Micropleuridae
Genus
Philonema
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Spirurida
Phylum
Nematoda
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • MacLulich, D. A. (1943) Parasites of trout in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario. Canadian Journal of Research, Section D, 21, 405 - 412. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / cjr 43 d- 033
  • Miller, R. B. (1945) Parasites collected from fishes of Lake Athabasca and Great Slave Lake in 1945. Department of Zoology, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta. Unpublished Report. 9 pp.
  • Miller, R. B. & Kennedy, W. A. (1948) Observations on the lake trout of Great Bear Lake. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 7, 176 - 189. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / f 47 - 019
  • Munroe, E. G. (1949) Notes on fish of the interior of the Labrador peninsula. Arctic, 2, 165 - 173. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.14430 / arctic 3986
  • Rawson, D. S. (1951) Studies of the fish of Great Slave Lake. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 8, 207 - 240. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / f 50 - 014
  • Bangham, R. V. & Adams, J. R. (1954) A survey of the parasites of freshwater fishes from the mainland of British Columbia. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 11, 673 - 708. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / f 54 - 043
  • Andrews, C. W. & Lear, E. (1956) The biology of the Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus L.) in northern Labrador. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 13, 843 - 860. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / f 56 - 047
  • Thomson, J. A. C. (1957) On the biology of the Arctic char, Salvelinus alpinus (L.) of Nettilling Lake, Baffin Island, N. W. T. M. Sc. Thesis. Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 95 pp.
  • Pippy, J. H. C. (1965) Studies on the parasites of freshwater fishes (Salmonidae and Coregonidae) of insular Newfoundland. M. Sc. Thesis. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Newfoundland, 170 pp. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / f 67 - 158
  • Wood, J. W. (1965) A report on fish disease as a possible cause of pre-spawning mortalities of Fraser River sockeye. International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission, New Westminster, British Columbia, 24 pp.
  • Meredith, J. E. (1966) Some aspects of the host reaction to the dracunculoid nematode, Philonema sp. B. Sc. Thesis. Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia. 31 pp.
  • 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
  • Hoskins, G. E., Bell, G. R. & Evelyn, T. P. T. (1976) The occurrence, distribution and significance of infectious diseases and of neoplasms observed in fish in the Pacific Region up to the end of 1974. Canadian Department of the Environment. Fisheries and Marine Service. Research and Development Directorate. Technical Report, No. 609, 35 pp.
  • Arai, H. P. & Mudry, D. R. (1983) Protozoan and metazoan parasites of fishes from the headwaters of the Parsnip and McGregor Rivers, British Columbia: a study of possible parasite transfaunations. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 40, 1676 - 1684. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / f 83 - 194
  • Poole, B. C. 1983. Fish-parasite population dynamics in small boreal lakes of central Canada. M. Sc. Thesis. Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  • Nelson, J. S. & Paetz, M. J. (1992) The Fishes of Alberta. University of Alberta Press and University of Calgary Press, Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta. 437 pp. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1002 / hep. 1840100226
  • Despres, L., Adamson, M. L. & McDonald, T. E. (1995) Development of a diagnostic molecular marker for Philonema spp. (Nematoda: Dracunculoidea) infecting salmonids in British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 52 (Suppl. 1), 129 - 133. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / f 95 - 518