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Contracaecum osculatum (Rudolphi, 1802) Baylis 1920

Description

* Contracaecum osculatum (Rudolphi, 1802) Baylis, 1920 (sensu lato)

Includes: * C. osculatum A auct.; * C. osculatum B auct.; and * C. osculatum C auct.

Description (after J. W. Smith & Wootten 1984c, and Moravec 2013). NB: the following description applies also to

* Phocascaris sp. and/or * Contracaecum sp. (see below). Greenish brown in colour, sometimes tinged with red, L3

about 7 to 30 long, lying coiled in capsules of irregular shape (J. W. Smith & Wootten 1984c). Mouth, lips, boring

tooth, and excretory pore similar to those of Anisakis simplex L3 (see Fig. 73 A,B,C).

According to Moravec (2013), L3 are 3.81–22.00 long, maximum width 0.15–0.53. Oesophagus 0.55–1.71 long,

ventricular appendix 0.54–1.58, and intestinal caecum 0.20–0.89. Single excretory cell extends posteriorly to mid-

body region. Tail 0.09–0.21 long, narrows rapidly to a point lacking a mucron. Anterior and posterior ends of an L3

shown diagrammatically in Fig. 75 A,B.

Sites: intestinal lumen, mesenteries, musculature, viscera

Hosts: Boreogadus saida (13); Gadus macrocephalus (11); Gadus morhua (1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 16); Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (1); Hippoglossoides platessoides (10); Hippoglossus hippoglossus (11); Mallotus villosus (10); Myoxocephalus scorpius (10); Oncorhynchus mykiss (6); Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (12); Pseudopleuronectes americanus (10); Theragra chalcogramma (11); Urophycis tenuis (5, 15); unspecified “fish” (2, 3)

Distribution: Atlantic, Nunavut, Pacific

Records: 1. McClelland et al. 1985 (AT); 2. Berland et al. 1989 (AT); 3. Burt et al. 1989a (AT); 4. Brattey et al.

1990 (AT); 5. McClelland et al. 1990 (AT); 6. J. W. Smith et al. 1990 (EX, AT); 7. Likely & Burt 1992 (AT); 8. Marcogliese & Boily 1994 (AT); 9. McClelland & Marcogliese 1994 (AT); 10. Brattey 1995 (AT); 11. Paggi et al. 1998 (PA); 12. Urawa et al. 1998 (PA); 13. Køie 2009 (NU); 14. Khan et al. 2011 (AT); 15. Melendy et al. 2005 (AT); 16. McClelland & Melendy 2011 (AT)

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 128-129, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4185.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/165530

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References

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  • Berland, B., Brattey, J., D'Amelio, S., Mattiucci, S., Nascetti, G., Orecchia, P., Paggi, L. & Smith, J. W. (1989) Multilocus electrophoresis in the study of marine ascaridoid nematodes: species, hosts and geographic distribution in the North Atlantic. Program and Abstracts. 64 th Annual Meeting, American Society of Parasitologists, 06 - 10 August 1989. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, p. 71.
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