Helminth parasites of the Atlantic chub mackerel, Scomber colias Gmelin, 1789 from Canary Islands, Central North Atlantic, with comments on their relations with other Atlantic regions

• Tipo: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2011

Autores

Graca Costa (Autor) Outra; Serena Cavallero (Autor) Outra; Stefano D'Amelio (Autor) Outra; Lia Paggi (Autor) Outra; Maria Teresa G Garcia Santamaria (Autor) Outra; Clara B Borges Perera (Autor) Outra; Maria Joao Santos (Autor) FCUP; Mahnaz Khadem (Autor) Outra

Revista

Título: Acta Parasitologica

Vol. 56

Páginas: 98-104

ISSN: 1230-2821

Editora: Springer Nature

Indexação

ISI Web of Knowledge - 12 Citações

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Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências médicas e da saúde > Ciências da saúde

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-002-TAZ

DOI: 10.2478/s11686-011-0006-1

Abstract (EN): Eleven parasite taxa were found infecting 68 Atlantic chub mackerel, Scomber colias Gmelin, 1789 from the Canary Islands, Central North Atlantic. The most abundant parasites were the gill monogenean Pseudokuhnia minor (P = 54.4%), larval anisakid nematodes (P = 11.8%) in the body cavity, a larval tetraphyllidean infecting bile ducts (P = 8.8%) and didymozoid digeneans infecting the gills (P = 7.4%). No correlation between fish length and abundance of infection with these parasites was found. Within the Atlantic, the comparison of present results with previous reports on the occurrence of parasites in this fish host, might suggest that there is more than one population unit of Atlantic chub mackerel in the Eastern Atlantic.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 7