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Pseudoterranova

Description

* Pseudoterranova sp.

Synonyms: “ Porrocaecum -type” sp. auct.; Phocanema sp. auct.; “codworm”; “sealworm”

Sites: alimentary tract, body cavity, mesenteries, musculature, viscera

Hosts: Amblyraja radiata (15); Anoplarchus purpurescens (13); Anoplopoma fimbria (4); Atheresthes stomias (14); Gadus macrocephalus (4); Gadus morhua (1, 3, 6, 8, 12, 18); Gadus macrocephalus (6); Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (6, 11); Hippoglossoides platessoides (6, 11); Hippoglossus hippoglossus (11); Leucoraja ocellata (9); Limanda ferrugineus (6, 11); Lophius americanus (6); Melanogrammus aeglefinus (6); Microgadus tomcod (6); Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus (6); Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus (13); Oncorhynchus nerka (5); Ophiodon elongatus (4, 13); Osmerus mordax (6, 20); Pleuronectes putnami (11); Pseudopleuronectes americanus (11); Raja sp. (10); Rhamphocottus richardsonii (13); Scophthalmus aquosus (11); Sebastes flavidus (21); Sebastes norvegicus (6); Squalus acanthias (15); Tautogolabrus adspersus (17); Theragra chalcogramma (13); unspecified “cod” (2, 7, 16); unspecified “fish” (19)

Distribution: Atlantic, British Columbia, Canada, Pacific

Records: 1. Smedley 1934 (AT); 2. Needler 1947 (AT); 3. Heller 1949 (AT); 4. Margolis 1952b (PA); 5. Margolis 1957 (BC); 6. Templeman et al. 1957 (AT); 7. Crampton et al. 1960 (AT); 8. Fleming 1960 (AT); 9. Myers 1959a (AT); 10. Myers 1960 (AT); 11. Ronald 1963 (AT); 12. Wiles 1968 (AT); 13. Arai 1969 (PA); 14.

Kovalenko 1969 (PA); 15. Threlfall 1969 (AT); 16. Chitwood 1970 (CA); 17. Sekhar S. [sic] & Threlfall 1970 (AT); 18. Kates et al. 1973 (AT); 19. Redkozubova 1976 (AT); 20. Threlfall 1981 (AT); 21. Stanley et al. 1992 (PA)

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 127-128, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4185.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/165530

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Ascarididae
Genus
Pseudoterranova
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Ascaridida
Phylum
Nematoda
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Smedley, E. M. (1934) Some parasitic nematodes from Canadian fishes. Journal of Helminthology, 12, 205 - 220. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / s 0022149 x 00004260
  • Needler, A. W. H. (1947) Appendix 1. Report for 1946 of the Atlantic Biological Station, St Andrews, N. B. In: J. R. Diamond. Annual Report of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada for the year 1946, p. 24 - 27.
  • Heller, A. F. (1949) Parasites of cod and other marine fish from the Baie de Chaleur region. Canadian Journal of Research, 27 D, 243 - 264. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / cjr 49 d- 022
  • Margolis, L. (1952 b) Studies on the parasites and diseases of marine and anadromous fish from the Canadian Pacific coast. Ph. D. Dissertation, Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
  • Margolis, L. (1957) A study of the parasites of sockeye and pink salmon with particular reference to their application in distinguishing between Asiatic and North American stocks of these fishes on the high seas ̶ report of results of examination of 1956 samples. Fisheries Research Board of Canada Manuscript Report (Biology), No. 641, 24 pp.
  • Templeman, W., Squires, H. J. & Fleming, A. M. (1957) Nematodes in the fillets of cod and other fishes in Newfoundland and neighbouring areas. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 14, 831 - 897. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / f 57 - 037
  • Crampton, E. W., Donefer, E. & Schad, D. J. (1960) Effect of the ingestion of Porrocaecum (codworm) on growth, voluntary intake and feed efficiency of beagle pups. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 17, 501 - 505. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / f 60 - 035
  • Fleming, A. M. (1960) Age, growth and sexual maturity of cod (Gadus morhua L.) in the Newfoundland area, 1947 - 1950. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 17, 775 - 809. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / f 60 - 065
  • Myers, B. J. (1959 a) Parasites of elasmobranch hosts from the Magdalen Islands region of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 37, 245 - 246. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / z 59 - 029
  • Myers, B. J. (1960) On the morphology and life history of Phocanema decipiens (Krabbe, 1878) Myers, 1959 (Nematoda: Anisakidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 38, 331 - 344. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / z 60 - 038
  • Ronald, K. (1963) The metazoan parasites of the Heterosomata of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. VII. Nematoda and Acanthocephala. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 41, 15 - 21. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / z 63 - 002
  • Wiles, M. (1968) Possible effects of the harbour seal bounty on codworm infections of Atlantic cod in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Strait of Belle Isle, and the Labrador Sea. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 25, 2749 - 2753. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / f 68 - 254
  • 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
  • Kovalenko, L. M. (1969) [Helminth infections in Atheresthes stomias.] In: Voprosy Morskoi Biologii. Tezisy II. Vsesoyuznogo Simpoziuma Molodykh Ucheny, Sevastopol 1969. " Naukova Dumka ", Kiev SSSR, pp. 61 - 62. (In Russian.)
  • Chitwood, M. (1970) Nematodes of medical significance found in market fish. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 19, 599 - 602.
  • Kates, S., Wright, K. A. & Wright, H. (1973) A case of human infection with the cod nematode Phocanema sp. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 22, 606 - 608.
  • Redkozubova, O. I. (1976) [Parasitological situation in the region of southern Labrador and northern Newfoundland Bank.] In: Kratkie Tezisy Dokladov II Vsesoyuznogo Simpoziuma po Parazitam I Boleznyam Morskikh Zhivotnykh, p. 5354. [Proceedings of the 2 nd All-Union Symposium on the parasites and diseases of marine animals. Abstracts.] Ministerstvo RybnogoKhozyaistva SSSR. AtlantNIRO, Kaliningrad USSR, 84 pp. (In Russian.)
  • Threlfall, W. (1981) Metazoan parasites of two populations of rainbow smelt in Newfoundland, Canada. Journal of Parasitology, 67, 129 - 131. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 3280798
  • Stanley, R. D., Lee, D. L. & Whitaker, D. J. (1992) Parasites of yellowtail rockfish, Sebastes flavidus (Ayres, 1862) (Pisces: Teleostei) from the Pacific coast of North America as potential biological tags for stock identification. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 70, 1086 - 1096. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / z 92 - 152