TY - JOUR
T1 - Digeneans from intertidal molluscs of SW Iceland
AU - Galaktionov, Kirill V.
AU - Skirnisson, Karl
N1 - Funding Information: The project was financed by grants from the Iceland Republic Fund 1994–1999, the NATO Science Fellowship and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant N 98-04-49706). We wish to thank two anonymous reviewers for comments on draft of the manuscript. We also thank Dr S.W.B. Irwin for comments and correction of the English.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - The fauna of digenean daughter-sporocysts, rediae, cercariae and metacercariae infecting molluscs Littorina spp., Onoba aculeus, Nucella lapillus and Epheria vincta has been studied in the Skerjafjordur and Grindavik regions of SW Iceland. In total, intramolluscan stages of 19 digenean species were recorded; 14 of them are new for Iceland and one of them, a microphallid named Cercaria islandica I, was unknown. A description of this new microphallid cercaria is provided. In addition, the identification and separation of the intramolluscan stages of some microphallid, renicolid and echinostomatid species are discussed. Consideration is given to difficulties encountered when identifying digenean species found on the coasts of European countries. Problems have arisen largely because larval and adult stages have been described and named independently and in isolation, synonyms are common and many 'definitive' descriptions are inadequate or incomplete.
AB - The fauna of digenean daughter-sporocysts, rediae, cercariae and metacercariae infecting molluscs Littorina spp., Onoba aculeus, Nucella lapillus and Epheria vincta has been studied in the Skerjafjordur and Grindavik regions of SW Iceland. In total, intramolluscan stages of 19 digenean species were recorded; 14 of them are new for Iceland and one of them, a microphallid named Cercaria islandica I, was unknown. A description of this new microphallid cercaria is provided. In addition, the identification and separation of the intramolluscan stages of some microphallid, renicolid and echinostomatid species are discussed. Consideration is given to difficulties encountered when identifying digenean species found on the coasts of European countries. Problems have arisen largely because larval and adult stages have been described and named independently and in isolation, synonyms are common and many 'definitive' descriptions are inadequate or incomplete.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0033840768
U2 - 10.1023/A:1006426117264
DO - 10.1023/A:1006426117264
M3 - Article
C2 - 10966216
SN - 0165-5752
VL - 47
SP - 87
EP - 101
JO - Systematic Parasitology
JF - Systematic Parasitology
IS - 2
ER -