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Spiruridae

Description

* Spiruridae gen. sp.

Site: body cavity

Hosts: Hippoglossus stenolepis (2, 3, 4, 5); unspecified “fish” (1)

Distribution: Pacific

Records: 1. Boyce 1971; 2. Blaycock 1996; 3. Blaycock et al. 1998a; 4. Blaycock et al. 1998b; 5. Blaycock et al. 2003

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 83, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4185.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/165530

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Spiruridae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Spirurida
Phylum
Nematoda
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Boyce, N. P. (1971) An instrument for removing cephalic sections of nematodes. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 90, 89 - 92. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 3224903
  • Blaycock, R. B. (1996) The parasites of Pacific halibut, Hippoglossus stenolepis, in the northeastern Pacific: ecological patterns in time and space. Ph. D. Dissertation. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 156 pp.
  • Blaycock, R. B., Holmes, J. C. & Margolis, L. (1998 a) The parasites of Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) in the eastern North Pacific: host-level influences. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 76, 536 - 547. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / z 97 - 214
  • Blaycock, R. B., Margolis, L. & Holmes, J. C. (1998 b) Zoogeography of the parasites of Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) in the northeast Pacific. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 76, 2262 - 2273. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / z 98 - 172
  • Blaycock, R. B., Margolis, L. & Holmes, J. C. (2003) The use of parasites in discriminating stocks of Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) in the northeast Pacific. Fisheries Bulletin, 101, 1 - 9. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / z 98 - 172