Abstract
Three new species of digenean are described from demersal fishes taken in deep waters of the northwestern and northeastern Atlantic Ocean: Podocotyle schistotesticulata n. sp. from Antimora rostrata; P. harrisae n. sp. from Coryphaenoides (Lionurus) carapinus; and Gaevskajatrema halosauropsi n. sp. from Halosauropsis macrochir. The status of the nominal species of the genus Podocotyle Dujardin, 1845 is presented in annotated summary, along with a tabulation of the distinctive characteristics of recognised species of the genus. Gaevskajatrema Gibson & Bray, 1982 is discussed and its diagnosis amended.
Article PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
Avoid common mistakes on your manuscript.
References
Bartoli, P., Bray, R.A. & Gibson, D.I. (1989) The Opecoelidae (Digenea) of sparid fishes of the western Mediterranean. V. Allopodocotyle Pritchard, 1966. Systematic Parasitology, 14, 69–77.
Bartoli, P. & Gibson, D.I. (1991) On Podocotyle scorpaenae, Poracanthium furcatum and Derogenes latus, three poorly known digenean parasites of western Mediterranean teleosts. Systematic Parasitology, 20, 29–46.
Baylis, H.A. (1939) Further records of parasitic worms from British vertebrates. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 11), 4, 473–498.
Baylis, H.A. & Jones, E.I. (1933) Some records of parasitic worms from marine fishes at Plymouth. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 18, 627–634.
Bray, R.A. (1985) Macvicaria taksengi n. sp. (Digenea: Opecoelidae) in marine teleosts from Pinang, Malaysia. Systematic Parasitology, 7, 75–80.
Bray, R.A. (1987) Some helminth parasites of marine fishes of South Africa: family Opecoelidae (Digenea). Journal of Natural History, 21, 1,049–1,075.
Bray, R.A. & Cribb, T.H. (1989) Digeneans of the family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925 from the southern Great Barrier Reef, including a new genus and three new species. Journal of Natural History, 23, 429–473.
Brinkmann, A.Jr. (1975) Trematodes from Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland, 205(2), 1–88.
Caira, J.N. (1989) A revision of the North American papillose Allocreadiidae (Digenea) with independent cladistic analyses of larval and adult forms. Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum, 11(3), 1–58 +195 figs.
Campbell, R.A., Haedrich, R.L. & MunroeT.A. (1980) Parasitism and ecological relationships among deep-sea benthic fishes. Marine Biology, 57, 301–313.
Dollfus, R.P. (1968) Les trématodes de l'histoire naturelle des helminthes de Felix Dujardin (1845). Memoires Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (Zoologie), 54, 119–196.
Gaevskaya, A.V. & Solonchenko, A.I. (1989) [New findings on the trematodes of Black Sea fishes.] Biologicheskie Nauki, (5), 43–47 (In Russian)
Gibson, D.I. (1986) Podocotyle araii sp nov. (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from Sebastes spp. off the coast of British Columbia, with a key to the species of Podocotyle Dujardin, 1845, occurring off the Pacific coast of North America. Journal of Natural History, 20, 735–743.
Gibson, D.I. (in press) Trematoda. In: Margolis, L. & Kabata, Z. (Eds.), Guide to the parasites of fishes of Canada. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
Gibson, D.I. & Bray, R.A. (1982) A study and reorganization of Plagioporus Stafford, 1904 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) and related genera, with special reference to forms from European Atlantic waters. Journal of Natural History, 16, 529–559.
Gibson, D.I. & Bray, R.A. (1984) On Anomalotrema Zhukov, 1957, Pellamyzon Montgomery, 1957, and Opecoelina Manter, 1934 (Digenea: Opecoelidae), with a description of Anomalotrema koiae sp. nov. from North Atlantic waters. Journal of Natural History, 18, 949–964.
Gibson, D.I. & Bray, R.A. (1989) The taxonomic status of Distomum umbrinae Stossich, 1885 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from the sciaenid fish Umbrina cirrosa (L.) in the Mediterranean Sea. Systematic Parasitology, 13, 63–70.
Hopkins, S.H. (1934) The papillose Allocreadiidae. Illinois Biological Monographs, 8(2), 1–80.
Issaitschikov, I.M. (1928) Contributions to parasitic worms of some groups of vertebrates from Russian Arctic. Trudy Morskogo Nauchnogo Institute, 3(2), 1–79 (In Russian)
Johnson, W.F. (1949) A new species of trematode, Podocotyle gibbonsia, from tide pool fishes of Monterey Bay, California. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 68, 107–109.
Køie, M. (1981) On the morphology and life-history of Podocotyle reflexa (Creplin, 1825) Odhner, 1905, and a comparison of its developmental stages with those of P. atomon (Rudolphi, 1802) Odhner, 1905 (Trematoda: Opecoelidae). Ophelia, 20, 17–43.
Koval, V.P. (1966) [Family Allocreadiidae Stossich, 1903.] Trematody Zhivotnykh i Cheloveka. Osnovy Trematodologii, 22, 183–310 (In Russian).
Kuntz, S.M. & Font, W.F. (1984) Seasonal dynamics of Allopodocotyle boleosomi (Pearse, 1924) n. comb. (Digenea: Opecoelidae) in Wisconsin darters (Etheostomatinae). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 62, 2,666–2,672.
Layman, E.M. (1930) Parasitic worms from fishes of Peter the Great Bay. Izvestiya Tikhookeanskoi Nauchno-Promyslovi Ostantsii, 3, 1–120 (In Russian and German).
Manter, H.W. (1934) Some digenetic trematodes from deep-water fish of Tortugas, Florida. Papers from Tortugas Laboratory, 28, 257–345.
Manter, H.W. (1963) Studies on digenetic trematodes of fishes of Fiji. II. Families Lepocreadiidae, Opistholebetidae, and Opecoelidae. Journal of Parasitology, 49, 99–113.
Margolis, L. (1972) The trematode Plagioporus shawi (McIntosh, 1939) n. comb. (Opecoelidae: Plagioporinae) from the North Pacific sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka. Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Serie Zoologia), 41, 99–108.
Miller, M.J. (1941) A critical study of Stafford's report on ‘Trematodes of Canadian fishes’ based on his trematode collection. Canadian Journal of Research, 19, 28–52.
Nagaty, H.F. (1942) Trematodes of fishes from the Red Sea. Part 3 —On seven new allocreadiid species. Publications of the Marine Biological Station Ghardaqa (Red Sea), 4, 1–27.
Nagaty, H.F. & Abdel Aal, T.M. (1962) Trematodes of fishes from the Red Sea, Part 19. On three new species of Podocotyle (Family Allocreadiidae). Journal of Parasitology, 48, 746–747.
Nahhas, F.M. & Krupin, R. (1977) Parasites of Liparis callyodon (Pallas) with a description of a new species, Metadena caballeroi. Excerta Parasitologia en Memoria del Doctor Eduardo Caballero y Caballero. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, pp. 261–266.
Nicoll, W. (1913) New trematode parasites from fishes of the English Channel. Parasitology, 5, 238–246.
Paggi, L. & Orecchia, P. (1963) Revisione della posizione sistematica di Distomum fractum Rudolphi, 1819 e proposta di un nuovo genere Robphildollfusium gen. nov. e di una nuova famiglia Robphildollfusiidae fam. nov. per questa specie. Parassitologia, 5, 131–143.
Park, J.T. (1937). A revision of the genus Podocotyle (Allocreadiinae), with a description of eight new species from tide pool fishes from Dillon's Beach, California. Journal of Parasitology, 23, 405–422.
Price, E.W. (1934) New digenetic trematodes from marine fishes. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 91(7), 1–8.
Pritchard, M.H. (1966) A revision of the genus Podocotyle (Trematoda: Opecoelidae). Zoologischer Jahrbücher, Systematik, 93, 158–172.
Reimer, L.W. (1984) Investigations of shallow and deepwater prawns and fishes on parasites and a short note on biomass of plancton of the coast of the P.R. of Mozambique. Fischerei-Forschung Wissenschaftliche Schriftenreihe, 22, 27–35.
Reimer, L.W. (1987) Opecoelidae (Trematoda) von Meeresfischen vor Moçambique. Angewandte Parasitologie, 28, 143–158.
Shimazu, T. (1990) Trematodes of a new genus, Neoplagioporus gen. n. (Digenea: Opecoelidae: Plagioporinae), and an unidentified opecoelid from freshwater fishes of Japan. Japanese Journal of Parasitology, 39, 384–396.
Sproston, N.G. (1939) Notes sur la faune parasitaire des poissons a Roscoff. Travaux de la Station Biologique de Roscoff, 16, 1–28.
Stiles, C.W. & Hassall, A. (1898) An inventory ofthe genera and subgenera of the trematode family Fasciolidae. Archives de Parasitologie, Paris, 1, 81–99.
Yamaguti, S. (1971) Synopsis of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates, Tokyo: Keigaku, Vols I and 2, 1,074 pp, 349 pls.
Zdzitowiecki, K. (1987) Digenetic trematodes from the alimentary tract of fishes off South Shetlands (Antarctic). Acta Parasitologica Polonica, 32, 219–232.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Bray, R.A., Campbell, R.A. New plagioporines (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from deep-sea fishes of the North Atlantic Ocean. Syst Parasitol 33, 101–113 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00009426
Accepted:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00009426