Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
DAO is a hybrid research journal on all aspects of disease phenomena in aquatic organisms.
Dis Aquat Org 132:143-149 (2019)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/dao03315
copiedDigenetic trematode Ogmogaster antarcticus (Notocotylidae) in a fin whale Balaenoptera physalus (Balaenopteridae) stranded in the Baltic Sea
ABSTRACT: On 28 August 2015, a dead fin whale Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) was collected from the waters of the Gulf of Gdańsk (Baltic Sea). The individual was a male in a poor nutritional condition with an empty stomach. Over 34000 Ogmogaster antarcticus flukes were found in the colon and rectum. This is the first observation of O. antarcticus in the Baltic Sea.
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Leszek Rolbiecki (Corresponding Author)
- Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, Faculty of Biology, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308 Gdańsk, Poland
Joanna N. Izdebska (Co-author)
- Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, Faculty of Biology, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308 Gdańsk, Poland
Iwona Pawliczka (Co-author)
- Prof. Krzysztof Skóra Hel Marine Station, Institute of Oceanography, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, University of Gdansk, Morska 2, 84-150 Hel, Poland