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Philometridae

Description

Philometridae gen. sp.

Sites: musculature, subcutaneous

Hosts: Gobiesox maeandricus; Platichthys stellatus; Paraplagusia bilineata; Rhodymenichthys dolichogaster

Distribution: Pacific

Record: Kuitunen-Ekbaum 1933a

Comment: Kuitunen-Ekbaum (1933a) reported “ Philometra sanguinea ” from the four species listed above, the fishes having been caught in Departure Bay, BC. The identification cannot be confirmed in the absence of a description or illustration. In any event, Rasheed (1963) referred this philometrid species to the genus Philometroides. Moravec (2013), for example, described and illustrated Philometroides sanguineus from Carassius spp., these hosts being fresh-water cyprinids, rather than species of marine fishes. For these reasons it is best to list the record merely as a philometrid.

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

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Biodiversity

Family
Philometridae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Camallanida
Phylum
Nematoda
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Kuitunen-Ekbaum, E. (1933 a) The occurrence of dracontiasis in Pacific coastal fishes. Annual Report on the Work of the Biological Board of Canada for the year 1932, Ottawa, 90 pp.
  • Rasheed, S. (1963) A revision of the genus Philometra Costa, 1845. Journal of Helminthology, 37, 89 - 130. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / s 0022149 x 00019672