Structure of Pleistophora hippoglossoideos Bosanquet in the American Plaice Hippoglossoides platessoides (Fabricius)

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Elongate white nodules of P. hippoglossoideos were often found in the body musculature of American plaice, H. platessoides, from the approaches to Halifax harbor and the Scotian Banks [Canada]. Since previous descriptions have been incomplete and based only on light microscopy, these nodules were processed for light microscopy and EM in order to obtain a more complete description of the parasite. P. hippoglossoideos was found to be similar to P. typicalis Gurley, 1893, except that true dimorphism was not found and the pansporoblast envelope was thinner. Stages in development of the late sporoblast, which were not described in P. typicalis, are shown. Occasionally large triangular spores were found, which were probably developmental abnormalities resulting from the failure of 2 or 3 sporoblasts to separate.

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