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1 July 2004 Two Species of Trichodina (Ciliophora: Peritrichida) from Cultured Flatfishes (Pleuronectiformes) in Atlantic Canada
J. Richard Arthur, David K. Cone, Roland R. Cusack, Duane E. Barker, Michael D. B. Burt
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Abstract

Air-dried smears of trichodinids were collected from cultured marine flatfishes of the families Pleuronectidae and Scophthalmidae at 2 localities in Atlantic Canada and stained using Klein's dry-silver impregnation technique to reveal the morphology of the adhesive disk. Two species were identified: Trichodina jadranica from the skin of captive broodstock of Pleuronectes americanus, Limanda ferruginea, Hippoglossus hippoglossus, and Scophthalmus aquosus and Trichodina hippoglossi from the skin of juvenile and broodstock H. hippoglossus. The former parasite has an extensive distribution in marine seas worldwide and has broad host specificity. The latter parasite is known only from the North Atlantic Ocean and has been found only on H. hippoglossus. This study represents the first confirmed identifications of Trichodina from pleuronectiform fishes in Atlantic Canada and the first reports of these species in Canadian waters.

J. Richard Arthur, David K. Cone, Roland R. Cusack, Duane E. Barker, and Michael D. B. Burt "Two Species of Trichodina (Ciliophora: Peritrichida) from Cultured Flatfishes (Pleuronectiformes) in Atlantic Canada," Comparative Parasitology 71(2), 247-250, (1 July 2004). https://doi.org/10.1654/4133
Published: 1 July 2004
KEYWORDS
Atlantic Canada
flatfishes
mobiline ciliates
Pleuronectiformes
Trichodina hippoglossi
Trichodina jadranica
trichodinids
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