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First record of Huffmanela schouteni (Nematoda: Trichosomoididae), a histozoic parasite of flyingfishes, in EuropeFrantisek Moravec1,*, Fulvio Garibaldi21Institute of Parasitology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branisovská 31, 37005 Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic 2Dipartimento per lo Studio del Territorio e delle sue Risorse (DIP.TE.RIS), Laboratori di Biologia Marina ed Ecologia Animale, Università di Genova, Viale Benedetto XV 3, 16132 Genova, ItalyABSTRACT: Examination of 3 specimens of the Mediterranean flyingfish Cheilopogon heterurus (Rafinesque) from the Ligurian Sea, Italy, revealed the presence of numerous, dark-shelled trichinelloid eggs (69 to 75 × 30 to 33 µm) inside the innermost layer of the swimbladder, mostly located in clumps arranged in a distinct pattern. These were identified as Huffmanela schouteni Moravec et Campbell, 1991, a species known so far as eggs in flyingfishes and in the stools of humans in Curaçao. This is the first finding of this parasite in Europe and C. heterurus represents a new host record.
KEY WORDS: Parasitic nematode · Tissue parasite · Huffmanela · Marine fish · Cheilopogon · Ligurian Sea · Italy
Published in DAO Vol.
57, No. 1-2
(2003) on December 3
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