Grillotia erinaceus (van Beneden, 1858) (Cestoda:Trypanorhyncha) from whiting in the Black Sea, with observations on seasonality and host-parasite interrelationship

The genus Grillotia Guiart, 1927 is cosmopolitan in its distribution and the type-species, G. erinaceus (van Beneden, 1858), has been relatively well studied. However, this study provides infection indices of Grillotia erinaceus from southern and northern Black Sea whiting Merlangius merlangus for t...

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Published in:Acta parasitologica 2014-09, Vol.59 (3), p.420-425
Main Authors: Özer, Ahmet, Öztürk, Türkay, Kornyushin, Vadim V., Kornyychuk, Yulia, Yurakhno, Violetta
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
Animals
Balaklava
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
Black Sea
Black Sea - epidemiology
Cestoda - classification
Cestoda - isolation & purification
Cestode Infections - epidemiology
Cestode Infections - parasitology
Cestode Infections - veterinary
Commercial fishing
Cysts
Ecology
Female
Fish
Fish Diseases - epidemiology
Fish Diseases - parasitology
Fishing vessels
Gadiformes - parasitology
Grillotia
Grillotia erinaceus
Host-Parasite Interactions
Infections
Male
Medical Microbiology
Merlangius merlangus
Microbiology
Original Paper
Ovaries
Parasites
Parasitology
Prevalence
Seasons
Sinop
Stomach
Turkey - epidemiology
Ukraine - epidemiology
whiting
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Summary:The genus Grillotia Guiart, 1927 is cosmopolitan in its distribution and the type-species, G. erinaceus (van Beneden, 1858), has been relatively well studied. However, this study provides infection indices of Grillotia erinaceus from southern and northern Black Sea whiting Merlangius merlangus for the first time. The specimens of Grillotia erinaceus were obtained from subserosa of the anterior oesophagus, stomach, pyloric caeca, liver, ovaries and mesenterium of whiting caught by commercial fishing vessels off Sinop, Turkey and off Balaklava, Ukraine. Fish were examined during the period from May 2011 to April 2012. Prevalence and mean intensity values in 268 fish collected off Sinop in the Black Sea were 18.66% and 1.82 ± 0.16 parasites per infected fish, respectively. In Ukrainian 166 whiting samples collected off Balaklava in the Black Sea, however, G. erinaceus plerocercus infection prevalence was 10.24% and mean intensity 1.71 ± 0.75 parasites per infected fish. Infection parameters were also determined at both sampling sites in relation with host length, sex and season.
ISSN:1230-2821
1896-1851
1896-1851
DOI:10.2478/s11686-014-0261-z