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New insights on the role of the holoplanktonic mollusk Firoloida desmarestia (Gastropoda: Pterotracheidae) as host for digenetic trematodes

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Interactions of holoplanktonic mollusks with symbionts and parasites are poorly known. We investigated the ecology of infection (prevalence, intensity, and abundance) in Firoloida desmarestia, caught during two sampling campaign sessions in 2012, off the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico (IMECOCAL, 83 stations) and a coastal research center near La Sorpresa Beach, Baja California Sur, in the Gulf of California (14 stations). Only females of F. desmarestia were parasitized. Hemiuroidea parthenita rediae infected 1% of F. desmarestia population at IMECOCAL, whereas young unencysted metacercariae stages of Opechona pyriformis (Lepocreadiidae) parasitized 6.6% of the same host species at La Sorpresa. Overall, finding of rediae and metacercariae represent new geographical and host records and shows that F. desmarestia has a dual host function in the life cycle of trematodes. As first intermediate host, F. desmarestia harbors hemiuroid rediae, functioning as the source of infection to other zooplanktonic groups by dispersing successive cercariae. As second intermediate hosts, it harbors infective unencysted metacercariae stages of O. pyriformis, which parasitize nektonic predators (fish), most likely through trophic interaction. Our results suggest that some trematodes are able to spend their entire life cycle infecting only pelagic hosts. Parasite–F. desmarestia interaction is shown in a conceptual model, where we propose that transmission of trematodes may occur between individuals of F. desmarestia within the same swarm. Relevance of F. desmarestia as a potential host in which life cycle abbreviation of trematodes may take place is discussed. This is the first quantitative study of helminth interaction on F. desmarestia in the Eastern Pacific.

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Acknowledgements

We deeply thank Sylvia P. Adelheid Jiménez Rosenberg for the samples used in this research (collected by the Investigaciones Mexicanas de la Corriente de California Program, IMECOCAL) and funded by the scientific initiatives “Variabilidad interanual de la producción primaria en frentes oceánicos de la Corriente de California frente a Baja California” (CONACYT 254745). We thank the scientific and technical staff of the R/V Francisco de Ulloa for assistance at sea. Laboratory work and data analysis was also supported by the Instituto Politécnico Nacional through scientific initiatives “Taxonomía y distribución vertical de larvas de peces al sur del Golfo de California y el Océano Pacífico adyacente” SIP20170376.

The Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnolgía supported this research through the scientific initiative “Variabilidad interanual de la producción primaria en frentes oceánicos de la Corriente de California frente a Baja California” (CONACYT 254745). R.J.S.M. was supported by a CICIMAR-IPN/COFAA grant.

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  1. Ecología y Conservación de la Vida Silvestre A.C. (ECOVIS), Marcelo Rubio, entre Oaxaca y Jalisco 3530, 23060, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico

    José Raúl Morales-Ávila

  2. Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas (CICIMAR), Departamento de Plancton y Ecología Marina, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Avenida IPN s/n, 23096, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico

    José Raúl Morales-Ávila, Ricardo Javier Saldierna-Martínez & María Moreno-Alcántara

  3. Unidad Académica de Ecología Marina, Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, Acapulco, Mexico

    Juan Violante-González

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Morales-Ávila, J.R., Saldierna-Martínez, R.J., Moreno-Alcántara, M. et al. New insights on the role of the holoplanktonic mollusk Firoloida desmarestia (Gastropoda: Pterotracheidae) as host for digenetic trematodes. Parasitol Res 117, 2149–2158 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-018-5902-y

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