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PARASITES OF ALASKAN VERTEBRATES Host-Parasite Index Between DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY and THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA RESEARCH INSTITUTE NORMAN, OKLAHOMA November 1, 1965 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR; Cluff E. Hopla Professor of Zoology Parasites of Alaskan Vertebrates by William L. Jellison, Ph.D., Research Scientist University of Oklahoma Research Institute Norman, Oklahoma (Home address: Hamilton, Montana) and Kenneth A. Neiland, Leader Disease and Parasite Studies Alaska Department of Fish and Game Anchorage, Alaska I I I I This host-parasite index has demanded much by way of time I and patience on the part of the authors. While not as complete as ariy of us desire, it does cover most of the pertinent literature I and brings together, under one cover, a surprising amount of information obtained in one area, which from the ecological view­ I point, is one of the most interesting in the Nearctic Region. I In a task such as this, good secretarial help is invaluable; I therefore, I take this opportunity to acknowledge the assistance of Mrs. Joyce Markman and Mrs. Gilda Olive. I Support in part by Federal Aid to Wildlife Restoration I Projects W-6-R and W-15-R is gratefully acknowledged. I Cluff E. Hopla Project Director I I II I I :, I I I i J I I I I TABLE OF CONTENTS I Page Introduction iii I Acknowledgements iv Host-Parasite List for Mammals 1 Insectivora 1 I Chiroptera 2 Carnivora 2 Pinnipedia 12 I Primates 16 Rodentia (Other than microtine rodents) 18 Microtine rodents (Voles, lemmings, muskrats) 21 Lagomorpha 29 I Artiodactyla 30 Cetacea 32 I Host-Parasite List of Land Birds 33 Falcons, Hawks, Eagles 33 Grouse, Ptarmigan 33 I Owls 35 Passerine Birds 36 Host-Parasite List of Water Birds 38 I Loons, Grebes, Cormorants 38 Swans, Geese, Ducks 38 Cranes, Oystercatchers, Plovers, Sandpipers, I Phalaropes, Turnstones 41 Jaegers, Gulls, Kittiwakes, Terns, Albatrosses 42 I Host-Parasite List of Fish 44 Host-Parasite List of Amphibia and Reptiles 48 I List of Parasites Recorded from Alaska with Exception of Fleas 49 I Bibliography 60 ii I I INTRODUCTION I This host-parasite index for the Vertebrates of Alaska has been prepared as part of a survey of the literature on zoonotic I diseases and parasites of that state. The fleas, Siphonaptera, have been omitted in this compilation I but are treated in a separate publication. The sources and type of information used for this index have been so diverse that it has been considered impractical or impossible I to be consistent in the arrangement of the data. The general scheme of arrangement is as follows: Mammals I Insectivora Chiroptera Carnivora I Pinnipedia Primates Rodentia Rodents exclusive of Microtinae I Microtinae only Lagomorpha Artiodactyla I Cetacea Land Birds Water (and Marine) Birds I Fish Amphibia and Reptiles Host genera are arranged alphabetically under the Order. I These sections are followed by an alphabetical list of the parasites and identification of their group affinity as Acanthocephala, I Anoplura, Acarina, etc. A bibliography of the literature referred to is included. t-~ 'I The parasite records are usually arranged in chronological order under the host name as follows: Scientific name of host Common name of host 1. Parasite name including author and date of description. I 2. Parasite name, author and date of description. 3. Etc. Notes if any I (Author or authors of reference and date) ' E' I!In I I iii I I The writers are aware of some deficiencies and a few omissions in this index. Once the manuscript was prepared any change required I alteration in three or four places. It is hoped this compilation will be us.eful and it may be I possible to prepare a supplement at a later date. I ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In the search for literature the writers have been assisted by the Librarians at the Arctic Health Research Center, The Arctic I Aeromedical Laboratory, The Rocky Mountain Laboratory and by many correspondents and associates. ,II 'I I I I I I I I I I •IC iv I I Host-Parasite List of Mammals I INSECTIVORA Microsorex hoyi - Pigmy shrew I Hymenolepis sp. (Undescribed) Larval nematode I (Dunagan, 1957C) Sorex cinereus - Masked shrew Hymenolepis falculata Hymedolepis parva I Hymenolepis schilleri Various localities (Voge and Rausch, 1955) I Hymenolepis sphenomorphus Anchorage (Voge and Rausch, 1955) I Tanana River and Huslia River (Dunagan, 1956) Hymenolepis horrida Hymenolepis sphenomorphus Locker and Rausch, 1952 I Capillary sp. (?) Ascarophis sp. Spirurid larvae I (Dunagan, 1957C) Sorex cinereus streatori - Masked shrew I Hymenolepis parva n. sp. Rausch and Kuns, 1950 Anchorage (Rausch and Kuns, 1950) I Sorex jacksoni - St. Lawrence Island shrew Echinococcus sp. St. Lawrence Island I (Thomas and Babero, 1956A) (Authors doubt if Echinococcus s:i..biricensis is a distinct species.) I Sorex obscurus - Dusky shrew Hymenolepis parva n. sp. Rausch and Kuns, 1950 Tolugak Lake I (Rausch and Kuns, 1950) Hymenolepis falculata Hymenolepis intricatus I Hymenolepis parva Hymenolepis spe.nomorphus Various localities; Anchorage I (Voge and Rausch, 1955) I. I I I - 2 - Sorex obscurus alascensis - Dusky shrew I Hymenolepis parva n. sp. Rausch and Kuns, 1950 Juneau (Rausch and Kuns, 1950) I Dispharynx soricis n. sp. Tiner, 1951 "Unidentified species of Coccidia" Juneau I (Tiner, 1951A) Sorex palustris - Water shrew Hymenolepis parva I Various localities (Voge and Rausch, 1955) I Sorex tundrensis - Trowbridge shrew Hymenolepis sp. (Undescribed) Huslia River I Ascarophis sp. (Dunagan, 1957C) Echinococcus multilocularis St. Lawrence Island I (Rausch and Yamashita, 1957) I CHIROPTERA Myotis lucifugus - Little brown myotis I Prosthodendrium duboisi sp. n. Neiland, 1962 Prosthodentrium alaskensis sp. n. Neiland, 1962 Juneau (Neiland, 1962B) I Myotis lucifugus alascensis - Little brown myotis Spinturnix americanus (Banks) I Portage Cave, Revillagigedo Island 1-VII-09, Hasselborg, Collector. (Peterson, 1965, correspondence) I CARNIVORA Alopex lagopus - Arctic fox I Ec:hinococcus sp. St. Lawrence Island (Rausch, 1952B); (Rausch,. 1953D) I St. Lawrence Island and Komandorskii Islands (Rausch, 1953C) I I I I I - 3 - I Alopex lagopus - Arctic fox (continued) Echinococcussibiricensis n. sp. Rausch and Schiller, 1954 St. Lawrence Island and other localities I (Rausch and Schiller, 1954) St. Lawrence Island (Meyers, 1955); (Schiller, 1955B)·· I Echinococcus multilocularis Arctic coast at Icy Cape, Wainwright and Brooks Range (Rausch, 1956A); (Rausch, 1960B) St. Lawrence Island I (Rausch and Schiller, 1956B) Gambell (Dunagan, 1957C) I Echinococcus sp. St. Lawrence Island (Thomas and Babero, 1956B) I Taenia sp. Uncinaria stenocephala (Dunagan, 1957C) Taenia polyacantha Leuckart, 1856 I Taenia crassiceps (Zeder, 1800) =Taenia hyperborea Von Linstow, 1905 (Rausch, 1959A) Diphyllobothrium dalliae Rausch, 1956 I Experimental infection (Hilliard, 1960) Echinococcus multilocularis I Various places (Rausch and Nelson, 1963) Toxascaris leonina St. Lawrence Island I (Dunagan, 1957C) Alopex lagopus innuitus - Arctic fox I Linognathus setosus (Olfers) (not "setesus") Cross Island I (Weber, 1950) Alopex pribilofensis - Pribilof fox Suricatoecus vulpis (Denny, 1842) (Recorded 2~~ from this host. Record has been questioned and further collections are desirable.) I Pribilof Islands (Jellison, 1952A) I Alopex sp. - Arctic fox Taenia polyacantha Leuckart, 1856 Taenia crassiceps (Zeder, 1800) =Taenia hyperborea Von Linstow, 1905 I (Rausch, 1959A) Echinococcus spp., Study of~· granulosus and E. alveolaris I (Lubinsky, 1960A) I --~-"'-·,,..,._.--:.···~"""""':,..,...,.,.-.;.-------------~-------------- I I - 4 ­ I Alopex sp. - Arctic fox (continued) Taenia crassiceps (Zeder, 1880) Arctic coast I (Freeman, 1962) Echinococcus multilocularis (Fay and Rausch, 1964) I Alopex sp. - Blue fox Linognathus setosus (Olfers) (Ferris, 1919-1935) I Trichinella spiralis (Brandley and Rausch, 1950) Antarctophthirus callorhini (Osborn) Proechinophthirius fluctus (Ferris) I (Jellison, 1952) Echinococcus granulosus (Batsch) St. Lawrence Island I (Sweatman, 1952) Toxascaris leonina (Von Linstow, 1902) Trichinella spiralis (Owen) I Adak (Schiller, 1952C) Microphallus pirum Afanas'ev, 1941 Phocitrema fusiforme Goto and Ozaki, 1930 I (Rausch, 1953A) Trichinella spiralis 16 of 222 infested I (Rausch et al., 1956A) Uncinaria stenocephala Toxascaris leonina I Taenia pisiformis St. Lawrence Island (Thomas and Babero, 1956A) Uncinaria stenocephala I St. Paul Island (Olsen, 1958) (Foxes not infested with seal hookworm, Uncinaria lucasi Stiles) I Alopex sp. and Canis sp. - Dogs and Arctic foxes Echinococcus sp. I (Rausch, 1952A) Distemper-like disease (Reinhard, 1952); (Reinhard, 1953); (Reinhard, Rausch and Geary, 1955) Taenia polyacantha Leuckart, 1856 I Taenia crassiceps (Zeder, 1800) =Taenia hyperborea Von Linstow, 1905 (Rausch, 1959A) Diplogonoporus balaenoptera LBnnberg, 1892 I Anchorage (Rausch, 1964C) (A parasite of whales and other marine mammals) I I • I - 5 ­ I Canis_domesticus -Domestic dog Echinococcus granulosus (Hadwen and Palmer, 1922) I Metorchis albidus (Braun, 1893) (Freeman and Ackert, 1937) Trichinella spiralis (Brandley and Rausch, 1950) I St. Lawrence Island (Rausch, 1951C) Echinococcus sp. I (Rausch, 1951C) Metorchis albidus (Braun, 1893) Kotzebue I Cryptocotyle lingua (Creplin, 1825) (Babero and Rausch, 1952) Echinococcus granulosus .I (Sweatman, 1952); (Rausch, 1952B) Toxocara canis (Werner, 1782) Trichinella spiralis (Owen) Adak I (Schiller, 1952C) Echinococcus granulosus alveolaris St. Lawrence Island I (Anon. A, 1953, Alaska's
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    REVIEWS IN FISHERIES SCIENCE & AQUACULTURE https://doi.org/10.1080/23308249.2020.1822280 REVIEW Review and Meta-Analysis of the Environmental Biology and Potential Invasiveness of a Poorly-Studied Cyprinid, the Ide Leuciscus idus Mehis Rohtlaa,b, Lorenzo Vilizzic, Vladimır Kovacd, David Almeidae, Bernice Brewsterf, J. Robert Brittong, Łukasz Głowackic, Michael J. Godardh,i, Ruth Kirkf, Sarah Nienhuisj, Karin H. Olssonh,k, Jan Simonsenl, Michał E. Skora m, Saulius Stakenas_ n, Ali Serhan Tarkanc,o, Nildeniz Topo, Hugo Verreyckenp, Grzegorz ZieRbac, and Gordon H. Coppc,h,q aEstonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia; bInstitute of Marine Research, Austevoll Research Station, Storebø, Norway; cDepartment of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łod z, Poland; dDepartment of Ecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia; eDepartment of Basic Medical Sciences, USP-CEU University, Madrid, Spain; fMolecular Parasitology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Pharmacy and Chemistry, Kingston University, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, UK; gDepartment of Life and Environmental Sciences, Bournemouth University, Dorset, UK; hCentre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK; iAECOM, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada; jOntario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada; kDepartment of Zoology, Tel Aviv University and Inter-University Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, Tel Aviv,
  • 2019 # the Author(S) 2019

    2019 # the Author(S) 2019

    Parasitology Research https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-019-06273-2 ARTHROPODS AND MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY - ORIGINAL PAPER Antarctophthirus microchir infestation in synanthropic South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens) males diagnosed by a novel non-invasive method David Ebmer1 & Maria José Navarrete2 & Pamela Muñoz2 & Luis Miguel Flores2 & Ulrich Gärtner3 & Anja Taubert1 & Carlos Hermosilla1 Received: 29 December 2018 /Accepted: 18 February 2019 # The Author(s) 2019 Abstract Antarctophthirus microchir is a sucking louse species belonging to the family Echinophthiriidae and has been reported to parasitize all species of the subfamily Otariinae, the sea lions. Former studies on this ectoparasite mainly required fixation, immobilization, or death of host species and especially examinations of adult male sea lions are still very rare. Between March and May 2018, adult individuals of a unique Burban^ bachelor group of South American sea lions (Otaria flavescens)living directly in the city of Valdivia, Chile, were studied regarding their ectoparasite infestation status. For first time, a non-invasive method in the form of a lice comb screwed on a telescopic rod and grounded with adhesive tape was used for sample taking process. Overall, during combing different stages of A. microchir were detected in 4/5 O. flavescens individuals, especially at the junction between the back and hind flippers. Our findings represent the first report of A. microchir infesting individuals of this synanthropic colony and fulfilling complete life cycle in a sea lion group despite inhabiting freshwater and in absence of females/ pups. Our Btelescopic lice comb apparatus^ offers a new strategy to collect different stages of ectoparasites and a range of epidermal material, such as fur coat hair and superficial skin tissue for a broad spectrum of research fields in wildlife sciences in an unmolested and stress reduced manner.
  • Huchen (Hucho Hucho) ERSS

    Huchen (Hucho Hucho) ERSS

    Huchen (Hucho hucho) Ecological Risk Screening Summary U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, April 2011 Revised, January 2019, February 2019 Web Version, 4/30/2019 Photo: Liquid Art. Licensed under CC-SA 4.0 International. Available: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Danube_Salmon_-_Huchen_(Hucho_hucho).jpg. (January 2019). 1 Native Range and Status in the United States Native Range From Froese and Pauly (2019): “Europe: Danube drainage [Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, and Ukraine].” “Population has declined [in Slovenia] due to pollution and river regulation. Conservation measures include artificial propagation and stocking [Povz 1996]. Status of threat: Regionally extinct [Bianco and Ketmaier 2016].” 1 “Considered locally extinct (extirpated) in 1990 [in Switzerland] [Vilcinskas 1993].” “Extinct in the wild in 2000 [in Czech Republic] [Lusk and Hanel 2000]. This species is a native species in the basin of the Black Sea (the rivers Morava and Dyje). At present, its local and time- limited occurrence depends on the stocking material from artificial culture. Conditions that will facilitate the formation of a permanent population under natural conditions are not available [Lusk et al. 2004]. […] Status of threat: extinct in the wild [Lusk et al. 2011].” From Freyhof and Kottelat (2008): “The species is severely fragmented within the Danube drainage, where most populations exclusively depend on stocking and natural reproduction is very limited due to habitat alterations and flow regime changes.” From Grabowska et al. (2010): “The exceptional case is huchen (or Danubian salmon), Hucho hucho. The huchen’s native range in Poland was restricted to two small rivers (Czarna Orawa and Czadeczka) of the Danube River basin, […]” Status in the United States Froese and Pauly (2019) report an introduction to the United States between 1870 and 1874 that did not result in an established population.