| defeating diplostomoid dangers in usa catfish aquaculture. | diplostomoid digenean metacercariae have caused widescale mortalities of channel catfish, ictalurus punctatus (rafinesque), at aquaculture farms in louisiana, mississippi and arkansas, usa. originally, based on a tentative diagnosis, the industry considered the primary harmful agent to be an introduced species from europe, bolbophorus confusus (krause, 1914), frequently reported from the american white pelican, pelecanus erythrorhynchos gmelin. our group has now shown, using its 1-2 plus three m ... | 2004 | 15357393 |
| bolbophorus damnificus n. sp. (digenea: bolbophoridae) from the channel catfish ictalurus punctatus and american white pelican pelecanus erythrorhynchos in the usa based on life-cycle and molecular data. | the common pathogenic prodiplostomulum metacercaria in the flesh, mostly near the skin, of pond-produced channel catfish ictalurus punctatus has been demonstrated to be bolbophorus damnificus overstreet & curran n. sp. the catfish acquires the infection from the snail planorbella trivolvis, the only known first intermediate host, and the species is perpetuated through the american white pelican pelecanus erythrorhynchos, as confirmed by experimental infections with nestling and dewormed adult pe ... | 2002 | 12075128 |