Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/dao069265
copiedMorphology of Philometroides barbi (Nematoda: Philometridae), a rare tissue parasite of the Mediterranean barbel Barbus meridionalis (Osteichthyes)
ABSTRACT: A female specimen of the nematode Philometroides barbi Moravec, Simková, Hanzelová, Spakulová et Caki´c, 2005, a little-known histozoic parasite of the Mediterranean Barbus meridionalis, was recorded from the fin of its fish host in Bulgaria. Scanning electron microscopical examination, used for the first time in this species, made it possible to determine the character of cephalic papillae (14 papillae arranged in 2 circles) and amphids and confirmed the presence of 4 large caudal lobes. These features distinctly distinguish P. barbi from Philometroides cyprini and other congeners parasitizing European fishes.
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František Moravec (Co-author)
- Institute of Parasitology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branisovská 31, 370 05 Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic
Andrea Simková (Co-author)
- Department of Zoology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk Uuniversity, Kotlárská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic
Martina Pec<ínková (Co-author)
- Department of Zoology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk Uuniversity, Kotlárská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic
Markéta Ondračková (Co-author)
- Department of Zoology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk Uuniversity, Kotlárská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic
- Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Kvetná 8, 603 65 Brno, Czech Republic