On the life cycle stages of Proctoeces maculatus (Digenea: Fellodistomidae) in mussels and fishes from Galveston Bay, Texas

Date

1980

Authors

Wardle, W.J.

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Publisher

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

Abstract

Cercaria brachidontis Hopkins, 1954, previously known from Louisiana, is reported from its type host, the hooked mussel Ishadium recurvum (Raf.) collected in Galveston Bay, Texas. The metacercarial stage of C. brachidontis is reported from both I. recurvum and the platform mussel Mytilopsis leucopheata (Conrad) and the parasite is referred to Proctoeces maculatus (Looss, 1901) Odhner, 1911. An adult fluke of the same species is reported from the hindgut of the sheepshead Archosargus probatocephalus (Walbaum) (Osteichthyes, Sparidae), collected from Galveston Bay.

Description

pgs. 737-743

Keywords

parasites, parasitism, hosts, life cycle, Proctoeces maculatus, marine molluscs, hooked mussel, Ischadium recurvum, platform mussel, Mytilopsis leucophaeata, marine fish

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