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Khawia japonensis (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea): another invasive parasite of carp, Cyprinus carpio L., imported to Europe
Author(s) -
Scholz T,
Binh T T,
Dezfuli B S
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of fish diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1365-2761
pISSN - 0140-7775
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2761.2011.01311.x
Subject(s) - czech , parasitology , carp , biology , library science , cyprinus , fish <actinopterygii> , zoology , ecology , humanities , fishery , philosophy , computer science , linguistics
Carp, Cyprinus carpio L., is one of the mostimportant cultured fish, especially in CentralEurope and Asia. InEurope, it is infected with a large number ofparasites, many of them introduced from Asia,mainly from the Far East of Russia and China. Parasitic worms,i.e. helminths, are represented, among others, bytapeworms (Cestoda) including the most pathogenicspecies, the Asian fish tapeworm Bothriocephalusacheilognathi Yamaguti, 1934 (syn. B. gowkongensisYeh, 1955), recently placed in the order Bothriocephalidea.Other potentially pathogenic cestodes of carpbelong to the order Caryophyllidea, the species ofwhich possess a monozoic (only one set of genitalorgans) and unsegmented body and use tubificidoligochaetes as intermediate hosts. Khawia sinensis Hsu, 1935 (Caryophyllidea:Lytocestidae), is native in East Asia and wasdescribed from the vicinity of Beijing in China(Hsu, 1935). It successfully colonized a major partof Europe and was also imported to North America. However, the veterinary importance of K. sinensis has decreased considerably during the last few decades, possibly as a result of the morerecent introduction of Atractolytocestus huronensis Anthony, 1958 (Lytocestidae), to Europe. In this paper, another caryophyllidean cestode, Khawia japonensis (Yamaguti, 1934), which occurredoriginally in East Asia, is reported from Europe for the first time