Contracaecum rudolphii Hartwich 1964
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* Contracaecum rudolphii Hartwich, 1964
Synonym: Contracaecum spiculigerum auct. nec Rudolphi, 1809
Description (after Bartlett 1996, and Moravec 2013). Ten 87-day-old L3 from experimentally infected guppies Poecilia reticulata were 0.8–2.9 long, and 0.030–0.090 maximum width. Five 152-day-old L3 were 3.1–3.9 (mean 3.5) long, and 0.110–0.120 (0.114) maximum width. Older larvae were 15.0–24.0 long, and 0.9–2.1 wide. Mouth, lips, boring tooth, and excretory pore similar to those of Anisakis simplex L3 (see Fig. 76 A,B,C). Nerve ring 0.150– 0.200 (0.167) from anterior end. Length of preventriculus 0.370–0.415 (0.391), ventriculus 0.025–0.030 (0.029), ventricular appendix 0.320–0.380 (0.359), intestinal caecum 0.170–0.225 (0.191) [Fig. 76 A], and tail 0.085–0.090 (0.088) [Fig. 76 B].
Sites: body cavity, intestinal lumen, musculature
Hosts: Fundulus heteroclitus; Poecilia reticulata (EX)
Distribution: Nova Scotia
Record: Bartlett 1996
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hartwich
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Nematoda
- Order
- Ascaridida
- Family
- Anisakidae
- Genus
- Contracaecum
- Species
- rudolphii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Contracaecum rudolphii Hartwich, 1964 sec. Arai & Smith, 2016
References
- Bartlett, C. M. (1996) Morphogenesis of Contracaecum rudolphii (Nematoda: Ascaridoidea), a parasite of fish-eating birds, in its copepod precursor and fish intermediate hosts. Parasite, 4, 367 - 376.