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Distribution of ichthyophonus hoferi (Mastigomycotina: ichthyophonales) in yellowtail flounder, Limanda ferruginea, from the Nova Scotia Shelf, Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Thomas G. Rand
Thomas G. Rand
Affiliation:
Biology Department, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3C3, Canada
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A survey was conducted from 1986 to 1987 to determine the spatial and seasonal distribution patterns of Ichthyophonus hoferi Plehn & Mulsow, 1911 in marine fishes, especially yellowtail flounder, Limanda ferruginea, from the Nova Scotia shelf, Canada. Ichthyophonus hoferi was found in 56 of 6759 (0·83%) yellowtail flounder, in one of 613 (0·16%) haddock, Melanogrammus aelgefinus, but in none of the other 1485 fishes representing seven species sampled from this area. Within the yellowtail flounder population, the fungus was distributed in patchy manner with infection prevalence ranging from 0·4% at Banquereau Bank to about 13% at Brown's Bank. Infection prevalence was the same in both the male and female flounder. There was no apparent seasonal cycle in infection, although pathogen recruitment into L. ferruginea was from early summer through to early fall months.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 72 , Issue 3 , August 1992 , pp. 669 - 674
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1992

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