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‘Global worming’: first record of an epidemic of Triaenophorus crassus in a population of Arctic charr Salvelinus umbla
Author(s) -
Achleitner D.,
Gassner H.,
Schabetsberger R.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2008.02166.x
Subject(s) - salvelinus , biology , cestoda , arctic , population , fishery , helminths , fish <actinopterygii> , zoology , ecology , trout , demography , sociology
In May 2005, an epidemic of the cestode Triaenophorus crassus occurred in the Salvelinus umbla population of Lake Grundlsee, an oligotrophic Austrian Alpine Lake. Based on catches with a standardized multi‐mesh gillnet survey 53% of S. umbla were infected with up to 17 cysts of T. crassus per fish. This is the first documented record of an epidemic of this tapeworm in S. umbla .