A Digenean Metacercaria from the Reef Coral, Porites compressa, Experimentally Identified as Podocotyloides stenometra

Feeding Porites compressa infected with a digenean metacercaria to the coral-feeding butterflyfish, Chaetodon multicinctus, established that the metacercaria was Podocotyloides stenometra. Those and field examinations finding a prevalence of 100% and an average intensity of infection of 6.5 worms/fi...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Journal of parasitology 1998-12, Vol.84 (6), p.1259-1261
1. Verfasser:	Aeby, G. S.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animals Biological and medical sciences Chaetodon multicinctus Cnidaria - parasitology Coral reefs Corals Female Fish Diseases - epidemiology Fish Diseases - parasitology Fish feeding Fishes Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Hawaii - epidemiology Infections Intermediate hosts Invertebrates Life cycle. Embryology. Development Male Marine Nemathelminthia. Plathelmintha Parasite hosts Parasites Parasitism Parasitology Physiology. Development Podocotyloides stenometra Porites compressa Prevalence Research Notes Snails Trematoda - physiology Trematode Infections - epidemiology Trematode Infections - parasitology Trematode Infections - veterinary
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Zusammenfassung:	Feeding Porites compressa infected with a digenean metacercaria to the coral-feeding butterflyfish, Chaetodon multicinctus, established that the metacercaria was Podocotyloides stenometra. Those and field examinations finding a prevalence of 100% and an average intensity of infection of 6.5 worms/fish in 28 C. multicinctus off Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, established this fish as a definitive host. Plagioporus sp. of Cheng and Wong, 1974 is a synonym of P. stenometra.
ISSN:	0022-3395 1937-2345
DOI:	10.2307/3284684