Gulf and Caribbean Research Volume 6 Issue 1 January 1977 Larval Cestode Parasites of Edible Mollusks of the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Edwin W. Cake Jr. Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/gcr Part of the Marine Biology Commons Recommended Citation Cake, E. W. Jr. 1977. Larval Cestode Parasites of Edible Mollusks of the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Gulf Research Reports 6 (1): 1-8. Retrieved from https://aquila.usm.edu/gcr/vol6/iss1/1 DOI: https://doi.org/10.18785/grr.0601.01 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Gulf and Caribbean Research by an authorized editor of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Gulf Kesearch Reports, Val. 6, No. 1, 1-8 LARVAL CESTODE PARASITES OF EDIBLE MOLLUSKS OF THE NORTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO EDWIN W. CAKE, JR. Oyster Biology Sectioti, Gulf Coast RcJseurcli Laboratory, Ocean Springs, Afississippi 39564 .4BSTRAL'T Ten distinct species of larval cestodes were obtained from 43 ediHe, or potentially edible, benthic mollusks of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Three of the infected mollusks, American oysters, Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin), Atlantic bay scallops, Argopecten irradians concentricus (Say), and sunray venus clums, Manocallisfa nimhosa (Lightfoot), are important commercial species in the eastern Gulf and the remainder are occasionally eaten by epicurean shellfishermen or \vcre consumed by prehistoric, ahoriFina1 Indians of the Gulf coast. The cestodes represent four orders, seven families and iiinc rccogized genera and include tlie trypanorhynclis.