Sticklebacks

Three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Several Gyrodactylus species have been recorded earlier from the G. aculeatus. A survey* of reports and papers revieled that so far G. arcuatus and G. branchicus were reported from the three-spined stickleback from Norway.

Several fish specimens collected 1977 in the Oslofjord area were screened, and as expected many gyrodactylids were found. They were mounted for microscopic inspection. The majority of parasites was identified as Gyrodactylus arcuatus.  There may be also some other Gyrodactylus species as well, but proper identification of the mounted parasites is pending.

! ! ! On one three-spined stickleback sample from Surnadal, near Trondheim, G. alexanderi was detected.

Microscopioc picture of G. alexanderi
G. alexanderi from G. aculeatus (IHL 42/90, fish collection NHM Oslo) collected 13.09.1990 at Surnadal, near Trondheim. Photo: Eve Zeyl. Click for larger image

 

 

 

 

 

Ninespine stickleback (Pungitius pungitius)

Sea stickleback (Spinachia spinachia)


* The survey for Norwegian gyrodactylids included the following reports and papers:

  •  Appleby, C. & Sterud, E. 1996. Parasites of white bream (Blicca bjoerkna), burbot (Lota lota) and ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua) from the River Glomma, South-Eastern Norway. Bulletin of the Scandinavian Society for Parasitology 6: 18-24.
  • Malmberg, G. 1970. The excretory system and marginal hooks as a basis for the systematics of Gyrodactylus (Trematoda, Monogenea). Archiv für Zoologie, 23: 1–237.
  • Malmberg, G. 1993. Gyrodactylidae and gyrodactylosis of Salmonidae. Bulletin Francais de Peche et de la Pisciculture. Boves 328: 5-46.
  • Sterud, E. & Appleby, C. 1996. Parasites of common asp (Aspius aspius), bream (Abramis brama) and zander (Stizostedion lucioperca) from the river Nitelva.' Bulletin of the Scandinavian Society for Parasitology 6: 134-138.
  • Sterud, E. 1999. Parasitter hos norske ferskvannsfisk. Norsk Zoologist Forening. Rapport. Oslo. 7: 22 pp.
  • Thoen, E., Haugland, O., Sterud, E. 1998. Parasites of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and brown trout (Salmo trutta) from the River Akerselva, Oslo, Norway. Bulletin of the Scandinavian Society for Parasitology 8: 92-96.
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