A Study of the Endoparasitic Trematodes from Marine Fishes of Departure Bay, B.C.

1 July 1936

journal article
Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Journal of the Biological Board of Canada

Vol. 2 (4) , 335-347
https://doi.org/10.1139/f36-013

Abstract

In this paper fifteen species of endoparasitic trematodes of marine fishes of Departure bay, B.C., are described. Eight of the fifteen species described are new. The fish examined were the more common shallow water fishes that could be obtained with a seine. The fishes belonged to the following families: Syngnathidae, Pleuronectidae, Scorpaenidae, Hexagrammidae, Ophiodontidae, Scorpaenichthyidae, Cottidae, Embiotocidae, and Pholidae. The parasites recorded are Prosorhynchus scalpellus n.sp., Prosorhynchus apertus n.sp., Rhipidocotyle elongatum n.sp., Pharyngora bacillaris (Molin 1859), Podocotyle abitionis n.sp., Podocotyle atomon Odhner 1905, Podocotyle reflexa Odhner 1905, Aporocotyle simplex Odhner 1900, Stephanostomum casum (Linton 1910), Stephanostomum tristephanum n.sp., Deretrema cholaeum n.sp., Telolecithus pugetensis Lloyd and Guberlet 1932, Dinurus nanaimoensis n.sp., Lecithochirium exodicum n.sp., and Genolinea laticauda Manter 1925.

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