Rediscovery of Mytilicola orientalis (Copepoda: Mytilicolidae) fromwild Pacific oysters Crassostrea gigas in Japan

Ault females and males of the mytilicolid copepod Mytilicola orientalis Mori, 1935 were found in the intestine of its type host, the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793), collected in the brackish reaches of the Kamo River, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Honshu, Japan. This represents a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nagasawa, Kazuya, Nitta, Masato
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 日本生物地理学会 2014
Subjects:
Mytilicola orientalis
bivalve parasite
Pacific oyster
Crassostrea gigas
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Pacific
Online Access:http://ir.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/00036344
http://ir.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/files/public/3/36344/20141127023826144798/Biogeography_16_49.pdf
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Summary:Ault females and males of the mytilicolid copepod Mytilicola orientalis Mori, 1935 were found in the intestine of its type host, the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793), collected in the brackish reaches of the Kamo River, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Honshu, Japan. This represents a rediscovery of M. orientalis from wild Pacific oysters in Japan.

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