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Contracaecum

Description

* Contracaecum sp.

Comments: larvae from fresh-water fishes probably represent either * C. rudolphii or * C. spiculigerum, whilst

those from marine fishes probably represent * C. osculatum, or * Contracaecum and/or * Phocascaris.

Sites: alimentary tract, body cavity, mesenteries, musculature

Hosts: Ambloplites rupestris (4, 52); Amblyraja radiata (24); Ameiurus nebulosus (30); Ammodytes hexapterus (8, 17); Anguilla rostrata (26); Anoplarchus purpurescens (21); Apeltes quadracus (59); Artedius harringtoni (17, 21); Aulorhynchus flavidus (17); Blepsias cirrhosus (17); Catostomus commersoni (28, 30, 31, 61, 63); Chitonotus pugetensis (21); Chrosomus eos (63); Citharichthys stigmaeus (2); Clupea pallasi (2, 8, 17, 21, 38, 40, 41); Coregonus clupeaformis (46, 48); Coryphaenoides rupestris (53); Cottus bairdii (30); Culaea inconstans (54, 55); Cymatogaster aggregata (21); Eopsetta jordani (7); Esox lucius (61); Etheostoma microperca (31); Etheostoma nigrum (30); Gadus morhua (1, 44, 67); Gasterosteus aculeatus (17, 25, 59); Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (14); Hexagrammos lagocephalus (17, 21); Hippoglossoides elassodon (7); Hippoglossoides platessoides (14); Hippoglossus hippoglossus (39); Hippoglossus stenolepis (62, 65, 66); Hydrolagus colliei (2): Hypomesus pretiosus (8); Icelinus filamentosus (17, 21); Jordania zonope (21); Lepomis gibbosus (30); Leptocottus armatus (17, 21); Limanda ferrugineus (14); Luxilus cornutus (31); Lycodes cortezianus (17, 21); Lyopsetta exilis (7); Malacocottus kincaidi (21); Mallotus villosus (5, 20, 29, 34); Melanogrammus aeglefinus (3); Merluccius productus (2); Micropterus dolomieu (30, 52, 61); Micropterus salmoides (56); Moxostoma anisurum (61); Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus (57); Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus (17, 21); Notropis atherinoides (61); Notropis hudsonius (30, 61); Oligocottus maculosus (17, 21); Oncorhynchus clarkii (9); Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (10, 11, 16, 21); Oncorhynchus keta (17, 19, 21); Oncorhynchus kisutch (17, 19, 21); Oncorhynchus mykiss (55); Oncorhynchus nerka (10, 11, 13, 17, 21); Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (17, 19, 21); Ophiodon elongatus (2, 17); Parophrys vetulus (7); Perca flavescens (6, 30, 58, 61); Percina caprodes (30); Pholis laeta (21); Pholis ornata (17); Pimephales promelas (48, 54, 55); Platichthys stellatus (17, 21); Pleuronectes putnami (14); Podothecus accipenserinus (17); Pseudopleuronectes americanus (1, 14); Pungitius pungitius (54, 55, 59); Reinhardtius hippoglossoides (39, 64); Rhinichthys atratulus (31); Rhinogobiopsis nicholsii (21); Salmo salar (18, 23, 42); Salvelinus alpinus (32, 43, 51); Salvelinus fontinalis (32, 63); Salvelinus malma (9, 17, 21); Sander vitreus (6); Scomber sp. (2); Scophthalmus aquosus (14); Sebastes aleutianus (37); Sebastes alutus (33, 37); Sebastes babcocki (37); Sebastes borealis (37); Sebastes brevispinis (37); Sebastes caurinus (21, 37); Sebastes ciliatus (37); Sebastes crameri (37); Sebastes diploproa (37); Sebastes elongatus (37); Sebastes entomelas (37); Sebastes fasciatus (50); Sebastes flavidus (37, 60); Sebastes goodei (37); Sebastes helvomaculatus (37); Sebastes maliger (37); Sebastes mentella (12, 50); Sebastes nebulosus (37); Sebastes nigrocinctus (37); Sebastes norvegicus (12, 50); Sebastes paucispinis (37); Sebastes pinniger (37); Sebastes polyspinis (37); Sebastes proriger (37); Sebastes reedi (37); Sebastes ruberrimus (37); Sebastes variegatus (37); Sebastes wilsoni (37); Sebastes zacentrus (37); Sebastes sp. (2); Squalus acanthias (2, 24); Synaphobranchus kaupii (53); Syngnathus leptorhynchus (17, 21); Tautogolabrus adspersus (27); Thaleichthys pacificus (17, 21); Theragra chalcogramma (17, 21, 45, 47, 49); Triglops pingelii (17, 21); unspecified “fish” (35); unspecified “herring” (36); Zoarces americanus (1).

Distribution: Alberta, Atlantic, British Columbia, Labrador, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, NorthwestTerritories, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan

Records: 1. Clemens & Clemens 1921 (AT); 2. Smedley 1934 (PA); 3. Kuitunen-Ekbaum 1937b (AT); 4. Bangham & Hunter 1939 (ON); 5. Templeman 1948 (AT); 6. Worley & Bangham 1952 (QC); 7. Margolis 1952a (PA); 8. Margolis 1952b (PA); 9. Bangham & Adams 1954 (BC); 10. Margolis 1956 (PA); 11. Margolis 1957 (BC, PAQ); 12. Yanulov 1962 (AT); 13. Margolis 1963 (BC, PA): 14. Ronald 1963 (AT); 15. Wood 1965 (BC); 16. Boyce 1966 (PA); 17. Arai 1967a (PA); 18. Pippy 1967 (PE); 19. Godfrey 1968 (PA); 20. Templeman 1968 (NF); 21. Arai 1969 (PA); 22. Boyce 1969 (PA); 23. Pippy 1969 (AT); 24. Threlfall 1969 (AT); 25. Hanek & Threlfall 1970a (LB, NL); 26. Hanek & Threlfall 1970b (LB, NL); 27. Sekhar S.[sic] & Threlfall 1970 (AT); 28. Threlfall & Hanek 1970a (AT); 29. Winters 1970 (AT); 30. Dechtiar 1972a (ON); 31. Kakonge 1972 (ON); 32. Hicks & Threlfall 1973 (LB); 33. Sekerak & Arai 1973 (PA); 34. Winters & Campbell 1974 (AT); 35. Redkozubova 1976 (AT); 36. Zenkin & Umnova 1976 (AT); 37. Sekerak & Arai 1977 (PA); 38. Arthur 1978 (PA); 39. Redkozubova 1978 (AT); 40. Arthur & Arai 1980a (PA); 41. Arthur & Arai 1980b (PA); 42. Pippy 1980 (AT); 43. Dick & Belosevic 1981 (NT): 44. Appy & Burt 1982 (AT); 45. Arthur et al. 1982 (PA); 46. Drouin 1982 (AB); 47. Arthur 1983 (PA); 48. McAllister & Mudry 1983 (AB); 49. Arthur 1984 (PA); 50. Bourgeois & Ni 1984 (AT); 51. Dick 1984 (NT); 52. Anthony 1985 (ON); 53. Houston & Haedrich 1986 (AT); 54. Dick 1987 (MB; 55. Dick et al. 1987 (MB); 56. Szalai & Dick 1990 (SK); 57. Khan 1991 (AT); 58. Szalai & Dick 1991 (MB); 59. Marcogliese 1992b (NS); 60. Stanley et al. 1992 (PA); 61. Szalai et al. 1992a (MB); 62. Blaycock 1996 (PA); 63. Dubois et al. 1996 (QC); 64. Boje et al. 1997 (AT); 65. Blaycock et al. 1998a (PA); 66. Blaycock et al. 1998b (PA); 67. Lee & Khan 2000 (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 131-133, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4185.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/165530

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Biodiversity

Family
Anisakidae
Genus
Contracaecum
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Ascaridida
Phylum
Nematoda
Taxon rank
genus

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