Two species of goby, Boleophthalmus pectinirostris and Scartelaos sp., as the new second intermediate hosts of heterophyid fluke in Korea | Zendy

Woon-Mok Sohn | Zendy; Jung-A Kim | Zendy; Hyun-Jae Song | Zendy

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Two species of goby, Boleophthalmus pectinirostris and Scartelaos sp., as the new second intermediate hosts of heterophyid fluke in Korea

Author(s) -

Woon-Mok Sohn,

Jung-A Kim,

Hyun-Jae Song

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

korean journal of parasitology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.555

H-Index - 42

eISSN - 1738-0006

pISSN - 0023-4001

DOI - 10.3347/kjp.2005.43.4.161

Subject(s) - biology , goby , zoology , ecology , fishery , fish <actinopterygii>

A survey was performed in order to determine the infection status of the metacercariae of heterophyid fluke in two goby species, Boleophthalmus pectinirostris and Scartelaos sp., collected from Gangjin-gun, and Shinangun, Sooncheon-shi, Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea. A total of three metacercariae of Heterophyopsis continua was found in only one B. pectinirostris (10.0%) from Gangjin-gun. Heterophyes nocens metacercariae were detected in 24 B. pectinirostris (96.0%) and 14 Scartelaos sp. (63.6%) from Shinan-gun. Heterophyopsis continua metacercariae were found in 11 B. pectinirostris (44.0%) and 21 Scartelaos sp. (95.5%) from Shinan-gun. Stictodora fuscata metacercariae were detected in 18 B. pectinirostris (72.0%) from Shinan-gun. No metacercariae were detected in 20 B. pectinirostris from Sooncheon-shi. From the above results, this study is the first to prove that B. pectinirostris and Scartelaos sp. serve as the second intermediate hosts of some heterophyid flukes in Korea.

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