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- Title
The parasite fauna of Arctogadus glacialis (Peters) (Gadidae) from western and eastern Greenland.
- Authors
Køie, Marianne; Steffensen, John Fleng; Møller, Peter Rask; Christiansen, Jørgen Schou
- Abstract
In all 155 specimens of the high Arctic codfish Arctogadus glacialis examined for metazoan parasites, 55 specimens were from southern and northern Baffin Bay, western Greenland, and 100 specimens from north-eastern Greenland and Scoresby Sound. A total of 20 parasite taxa were recorded. A new myxozoan Gadimyxa arctica was found in southern Baffin Bay and Scoresby Sound. The gadid myxozoan Zschokkella hildae, the digeneans Gonocerca phycidis and Lecithaster gibbosus, the gill copepod Haemobaphes cyclopterina and third-stage larvae of the nematodes Anisakis simplex and Hysterothylacium aduncum were found in Scoresby Sound only. The digenean Hemiurus levinseni and third-stage larvae of the nematode Contracaecum sp. were found at all four stations. The nematodes Ascarophis spp. were found at three stations. The parasite fauna of A. glacialis from Scoresby Sound was very similar to that of 50 specimens of the closely related Boreogadus saida from the same area.
- Subjects
GREENLAND; ARCTOGADUS; BOREOGADUS; PARASITES; FISH larvae
- Publication
Polar Biology, 2008, Vol 31, Issue 9, p1017
- ISSN
0722-4060
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00300-008-0440-1