Guide to the Parasites of Fishes of Canada
By addebook • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: Biology
Guide to the Parasites of Fishes of Canada
Guide to the Parasites of Fishes of Canada
By D. I. Gibson, L. Margolis, Z. Kabata
Publisher: Canadian Government Publishing
Number Of Pages: 373
Publication Date: 1996-04
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0660164035
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780660164038
Binding: Paperback
In Part IV of this series, Guide to the Parasites of Fishes of Canada, the Trematoda are treated by a renowned helminthologist, Dr. David I. Gibson, from the Natural History Museum, London. He has studied these parasites of fishes from the “four corners” of the globe, including the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Canada. We are indeed fortunate, as will be subsequent users of the Guide, that Dr. Gibson agreed to undertake the task of authoring this publication.
The three previous parts ( Part I. Beverley-Burton, M. 1984. Monogenea and Turbellaria. Part II. Kabata, Z., F. Rafi, and E. L. Bousfield. 1988. Crustacea. Part III. Arai, H. P. 1989. Acanthocephala; and Arai, M. N. 1989. Cnidaria.) in this series dealt with the Monogenea, Turbellaria, Crustacea, Acanthocephala, and Cnidaria. Part IV provides practical keys for identification of the taxa of Trematoda represented in Canadian fishes down to the species level, accompanied by detailed line drawings.
Although maintaining the general format of Parts I-III, in keeping with our policy of permitting the authors some degree of latitude in how they approached their task, Part IV has three departures from the general plan. Firstly, it discusses major taxonomic problems, when required, for genera and higher taxa on a global basis. The large number of species included in this work dictated that certain measures be taken to keep the volume within a manageable size. This led to the second and third departures from the basic plan: figures are provided for only one species in a genus, rather than all species, and full descriptions are not provided for individual species. These omissions are compensated for by detailed generic descriptions and inclusion of all important distinguishing characters in the keys to species. More than 80 keys leading to the identification of more than 220 species of trematode parasites of Canadian fishes are provided. Diagnoses of more than 80 family-group taxa and 130 genera are given. For each species of trematode a Canadian host list, locality data, and any relevant remarks are included. In addition, a host-parasite list is given plus parasite and host indices.
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