Project progression

This page shows some of the preliminary results of the project "Diversity mapping of Norwegian gyrodactylid flatworms - mining natural history collections"

Fish checked for Gyrodactylus spp.

 

Number of fish families checked

33

                 freshwater families checked

  7 of 13

                 marine families checked

29 of 78

Number of fish species checked

83 of 314

Number of individual fish checked

636

Table 1:  Summary of fish cheked for Gyrodactylus spp. as compared to number of fish families/species in Norwegian waters

 

 

Number of Gyrodactylus spp. found

 

Number of Gyrodactylus spp. found in total

28

Possibly new gyrodactylid species to Norway

20

Possibly new gyrodactylid species to science

13

New fish species as host for individual Gyrodactylus spp.

16

Table 2: Summary of gyrodactylid species found during the project

 

 

 

Figure 1: Number of Gyrodactylus spp. found in the fish families studied, as well as color coding for which gyrodactylid species were found

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Published Apr. 12, 2022 8:26 AM - Last modified Apr. 12, 2022 9:18 AM