| heavy metal accumulation in lacistorhynchus dollfusi (trypanorhyncha: lacistorhynchidae) infecting citharichthys sordidus (pleuronectiformes: bothidae) from santa monica bay, southern california. | the accumulation of heavy metals in macroparasites of fish has been widely studied in freshwater environments. less is known about metal uptake in cestodes parasitizing marine fish. lacistorhynchus dollfusi is a common larval cestode parasite of pacific sanddab (citharichthys sordidus), a flatfish species inhabiting santa monica bay. the ability of this cestode to concentrate metals in its tissues was compared with metal levels in its sanddab host. fish and cestode tissue were analysed for 14 el ... | 2016 | 27000633 |
| biological tags for stock separation in pacific herring clupea harengus pallasi in california. | a survey of the parasites of pacific herring (clupea harengus pallasi) off northern california identified 1 species of acanthocephala, 1 species of cestoda, 2 species of copepoda, 1 species and 1 family of digenea, 3 species of nematoda, and 3 species of protozoa. from this survey, lacistorhynchus dollfusi (cestoda), parahemiurus merus (digenea), and anisakis simplex, contracaecum sp., hysterothylacium sp. (nematoda) were selected as potential tags. herring were collected in tomales, san francis ... | 1992 | 1738068 |