New data on the occurrence of internal parasitic worms in the Gymnodraco acuticeps and Cygnodraco mawsoni (Bathydraconidae) fish in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.

• Main Authors: Z. LASKOWSKI, A. ROCKA, K. ZDZITOWIECKI, GHIGLIOTTI, LAURA, PISANO, EVA
• Other Authors: Z., Laskowski, A., Rocka, K., Zdzitowiecki, Ghigliotti, Laura, Pisano, Eva
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: country:POL 2005
• Subjects: Antarctic; Ross Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Research
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11567/211159

The two bathydraconid species, Gymnodraco acuticeps and Cygnodraco mawsoni, caught in the Ross Sea (Antarctic summer 2002) were examined for internal parasites. All specimens (four G. acuticeps and one C. mawsoni) were infected. G. acuticeps harboured larval Cestoda (bilocular tetraphyllidean cercoids, diphyllobothriid plerocercoids) and Nematoda (Contracaecum spp.), acanthocephalan cystacanths and adult helminths (three species of Digenea and one species of Nematoda). Two specimens of C. mawsoni (in cluding data from one additional specimen examined earlier) were infected by larval Cestoda (bilocular cercoid) and Nematoda (Contracaecum spp.) and adult helminths (three species of Digenea and one species of Nematoda). The present data are compared and discussed with the relevant literature data.