| invasive swimbladder parasite anguillicoloides crassus: infection status 15 years after discovery in wild populations of american eel anguilla rostrata. | a year-round survey of american eels anguilla rostrata was performed at 5 localities in south carolina (sc), usa, 15 yr after the first infection by the nematode anguillicoloides crassus was reported from winyah bay, sc. infections by adult stages of a. crassus in the swimbladder lumen occurred with a prevalence of 45% (n = 479), a mean intensity (± se) of 2.3 ± 0.2 worms per infected eel (range = 1-22), and a mean abundance of 2.0 ± 0.1 among all eels. infections by larval stages of a. crassus ... | 2014 | 24429471 |
| first report of the invasive eel pest pseudodactylogyrus bini in north america and in wild american eels. | we detected 2 species of monogenean gill worms, pseudodactylogyrus bini (kikuchi, 1929) gusev, 1965 and p. anguillae (yin & sproston, 1948) gusev, 1965 (monopisthocotylea: pseudodactylogyridae), on american eel anguilla rostrata in 2 rivers in south carolina, usa. one of these, p. anguillae, was reported 5 yr ago from nova scotia; as well as in south carolina, we also discovered it in 2 localities in chesapeake bay. differences in the morphologies of specimens of either species of worm from nort ... | 2001 | 11253875 |