Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The genera Ceratomyxa Thélohan, 1892, Leptotheca Thélohan, 1895 and Sphaeromyxa Thélohan, 1892 (Myxosporea: Bivalvulida) in gadid fish of the Northeast Atlantic

  • Published:
Systematic Parasitology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The gall-bladders of four species of gadid fish from the North Sea and Norwegian waters were examined for myxosporeans. The host species were cod Gadus morhua L. (350 examined), haddock Melanogrammus aeglefinus (L.) (592 examined), saithe Pollachius virens (L.) (205 examined) and whiting Merlangius merlangus (L.) (368 examined). Four species of myxosporeans are redescribed from these fish. Ceratomyxa arcuata Thélohan, 1892 was the most common species and was found in whiting (42.8%) and cod (0.6%). Leptotheca informis Auerbach, 1910 was found only in whiting (6.5%). L. longipes Auerbach, 1910 was found only in haddock (6.2%). Sphaeromyxa hellandi Auerbach, 1909 was found in haddock (9.1%) and whiting (0.3%). None of the saithe examined, and no cod or haddock from Norwegian waters, was infected with these myxosporeans. All four species appear to have distributions limited to the Northeast Atlantic, with S. hellandi having a more northern distribution than the other three. The validity of reports of C. arcuata, L. informis and L. longipes from outside this area is discussed.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Auerbach, M. (1909) Bemerkungen über Myxosporidien. Zoologis-cher Anzeiger, 34, 65–82.

    Google Scholar 

  • Auerbach, M. (1910) Cnidosporidienstudien. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 35, 767–777.

    Google Scholar 

  • Auerbach, M. (1912) Studien über die Myxosporidien der Norwegischen Seefische und ihre Verbreitung. Zoologischer Jahrbücher, Abteilung I.Systematik (Ökologie), Geographie und Biologie, 34, 1–50.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dunkerly, J.S. (1921) Fish Myxosporidia from Plymouth. Parasitol-ogy, 12, 328–333.

    Google Scholar 

  • Feist, S.W. & Ronga, E. (1996) Distribution and prevalence of gall bladder myxosporean parasites in dab (Limanda limanda L.) and whiting (Merlangius merlangus L.) in UK coastal waters. Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists, 16, 176–180.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gaevskaya, A.V. & Kovaleva, A.A. (1984) On the myxosporidian fauna of fish in the Celtic Sea. Vestnik Zoologi, 1984(5), 3–7.

    Google Scholar 

  • Georgèvitch, J. (1916) Note sur les Myxosporidies des poissons de la baie de Villefranche et de Monaco. Bulletin de l'Institut Oceanographique de Monaco, 322, 1–7.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jameson, A.P. (1913) A note on some Myxosporidia collected at Monaco. Bulletin de l'Institut Oceanographique de Monaco, 273, 1–4.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jensen, L.A., Heckmann, R.A., Moser, M. & Dailey, M.D. (1982) Parasites of bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis, from southern and central California. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 49, 314–317.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kabata, Z. (1967) Whiting stocks and their gall-bladder parasites in British waters. Marine Research, 1967(2), 11 pp.

  • Kudo, R. (1920) Studies on Myxosporidia. A synopsis of genera and species of Myxosporidia. Illinois Biological Monographs, 5, 1–265.

    Google Scholar 

  • Labbé, A. (1899) Sporozoa. Das Tierreich, 5, 180 pp.

  • Lom, J. & Arthur, J.R. (1989) A guideline for the preparation of species descriptions in Myxosporea. Journal of Fish Diseases, 12, 151–156.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lom, J. & Dykova, I. (1992) Protozoan parasites of fishes.Amster-dam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 315 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Love, M.S., Shriner, K. & Morris, P. (1984) Parasites of olive rock-fish, Sebastes serranoides (Scorpaenidae) off central California. Fishery Bulletin, 82, 530–536.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lubat, V., Radujkovic, B., Marques, A. & Bouix, G. (1989) Par-asites de poissons marins du Montenegro: Myxosporidies. Acta Adriatica, 30, 31–50.

    Google Scholar 

  • MacKenzie, K. & Kalavati, C. (1995) Species in the genus Myxi-dium Bütschli, 1882 (Myxosporea: Bivalvulida) parasitizing the gall bladders of gadid fish in the northeast Atlantic. Journal of Natural History, 29, 851–863.

    Google Scholar 

  • Meglitsch, P.A. (1960) Some coelozoic Myxosporidia from New Zealand fishes. I. General, and family Ceratomyxidae. Transac-tions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 88, 265–356.

    Google Scholar 

  • Moser, M. & Noble, E.R. (1976) The genus Leptotheca (Protozoa: Myxosporida) in macrourid fishes and sablefish, Anoplopoma fimbria. Journal of Protozoology, 23, 490–492.

    Google Scholar 

  • Moser, M., Love, M.S. & Jensen, L.A. (1976) Myxosporida (Pro-tozoa) in California rockfish, Sebastes spp. Journal of Parasitology, 62, 690–692.

    Google Scholar 

  • Noble, E.R. (1957) Seasonal variations in host-parasite relations be-tween fish and their Protozoa. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 36, 143–155.

    Google Scholar 

  • Parisi, B. (1912) Primo contributo alla distribuzione geografica dei missosporidi in Italia. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali, 50, 283–291.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pogoreltseva, T.P. (1952) Study of the parasitofauna of fishes of the northeastern Black Sea. Akademiya Nauk Ukrainskoi RSR, Pratsi Institutu Zoologii, 8, 100–120. (In Russian).

    Google Scholar 

  • Polyansky, Yu.I. (1955) Parasites of the Fish of the Barents Sea Zo-ologicheskogo Instituta Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 19, 158 pp. (In Russian: English translation 1966, Israel Program for Scientific Translations).

    Google Scholar 

  • Shotter, R.A. (1970) Note on myxosporidian parasites of whit-ing, Odontogadus merlangus (L.) from the northern Irish Sea. Reports of the Marine Biological Station of Port Erin, 83, 51–54

    Google Scholar 

  • Thélohan, P. (1892) Myxosporidies de la vésicule biliare des pois-sons. Compte Rendu Hebdomadaire des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, 115, 1091–1094.

    Google Scholar 

  • Thélohan, P. (1895) Recherches sur les Myxosporidies. Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique, 26, 100–394.

    Google Scholar 

  • Théodoridès, J. (1955) Myxosporidies et Microsporidies parasites de poissons marins de Banyuls. Vie et Milieu, 6, 60–66.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yoshino, T.P & Moser, M. (1974) Myxosporida (Protozoa) in macrourid fishes (Coryphaenoides spp.) of the northeastern Pa-cific. Journal of Parasitology, 60, 655–659.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yoshino, T.P & Noble, E.R. (1973) Myxosporida of macrourid fishes from southern California and Mexico. Journal of Para-sitology, 59, 844–850.

    Google Scholar 

  • Zaika, V.E. (1966) The protozoan parasite fauna of fish of the Black Sea. In: Delyamure, S.L. (Ed.) Helminth fauna of animals in Southern Seas. Kiev: Naukova Dumka, pp. 13–31.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Zoology, Andhra University, Waltair, 530 003, Andhra Pradesh, India

    Chaganti Kalavati

  2. Department of Zoology, The University of Aberdeen, Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen, AB24 3TZ, UK

    Ken MacKenzie

Authors
  1. Chaganti Kalavati
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Ken MacKenzie
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Kalavati, C., MacKenzie, K. The genera Ceratomyxa Thélohan, 1892, Leptotheca Thélohan, 1895 and Sphaeromyxa Thélohan, 1892 (Myxosporea: Bivalvulida) in gadid fish of the Northeast Atlantic. Syst Parasitol 43, 209–216 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006144721096

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006144721096

Keywords

Search

Navigation