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Raphidascaris

Description

** Raphidascaris sp.

Sites: alimentary tract, liver, musculature

Hosts: Acipenser fulvescens (26, 28); Coregonus artedi (14, 15, 17); Coregonus clupeaformis (3, 14, 16, 17, 20, 21, 23); Coregonus nasus (27); Esox lucius (2, 3, 5, 8, 12, 14, 19, 20, 21, 23); Morone chrysops (22); Perca flavescens (1, 3, 15, 20, 23); Pungitius pungitius (12); Salmo salar (6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 18); Salvelinus fontinalis (16, 24, 25); Salvelinus namaycush (12, 16); Sander vitreus (3, 4)

Distribution: Alberta, Hudson Bay Drainage, Labrador, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan

Records: 1. Richardson 1937 (QC); 2. McLeod 1943 (MB); 3. McLeod 1944 (MB); 4. Stewart-Hay 1951b (MB); 5. Stewart-Hay 1953c (MB); 6. Pippy 1967 (LB); 7. Pippy 1969 (AT); 8. Threlfall & Hanek 1970b (LB); 9. Hare 1975 (NB); 10. Hare & Burt 1975a (NB); 11. Hare & Burt 1975b (NB); 12. Leong 1975 (AB); 13. Hare & Burt 1976 (NB); 14. Watson 1977 (MB); 15. Anthony 1978b (ON); 16. Chinniah & Threlfall 1978 (LB); 17. Watson & Dick 1979 (MB); 18. Pippy 1980 (NB); 19. Watson & Dick 1980 (MB); 20. Samuel 1981 (AB); 21. McAllister & Mudry 1983 (AB); 22. Anthony 1984 (ON); 23. Samuel 1985 (AB); 24. Frimeth 1987a (NB); 25. Frimeth 1987b (NB); 26. Choudhury et al. 1990 (MB); 27. Choudhury & Dick 1997 (NT); 28. Choudhury & Dick 1998 (HBD, MB)

Notes

Published as part of Arai, Hisao P. & Smith, John W., 2016, Guide to the Parasites of Fishes of Canada Part V: Nematoda, pp. 1-274 in Zootaxa 4185 (1) on page 150, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4185.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/165530

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Raphidascarididae
Genus
Raphidascaris
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rhabditida
Phylum
Nematoda
Taxon rank
genus

References

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  • McLeod, J. A. (1943) Preliminary biological investigations of eight lakes in the Whiteshell Forestry Reserve. Manitoba Department of Mines and Natural Resources. Game and Fisheries Branch Report. Sections A-H, 107 pp.
  • McLeod, J. A. (1944) Biological investigation of Lake Wellman. Manitoba Department of Mines and Natural Resources. Game and Fisheries Branch Report, 15 pp.
  • Stewart-Hay, R. K. (1951 b) A biological survey of Lake Dauphin - Summer 1951. Manitoba Department of Mines and Natural Resources, Game and Fisheries Branch Report, 44 pp.
  • Stewart-Hay, R. K. (1953 c) A biological survey of three unnamed lakes in Whiteshell Forest Reserve - August 1953. Manitoba Department of Mines and Natural Resources, Game and Fisheries Branch Report, 17 pp.
  • Pippy, J. H. C. (1969) Preliminary report on parasites as biological tags in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). I. Investigations 1966 to 1968. Fisheries Research Board of Canada Technical Report, No. 134, 60 pp.
  • Hare, G. M. & Burt, M. D. B. (1975 a) Identification, host sites and biology of parasites infecting juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in the Miramichi River system. Fisheries and Marine Service, Research and Development Directorate, Technical Report, No. 581, 34 pp.
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