Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Department of Hydrobiology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
J Invertebr Pathol. 2017 Nov;150:32-34. doi: 10.1016/j.jip.2017.09.003. Epub 2017 Sep 7.
The prosobranch gastropod Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gray, 1843) is poorly understood as a parasite host outside its native New Zealand, including in Europe. Our aim was to ascertain whether non-native P. antipodarum could acquire aspidogastrids or digeneans in habitats where these parasites are found in native hosts. We examined 2400 P. antipodarum individuals from Sosno Lake (Poland). The majority of snails were adult females. No males were found. We found five P. antipodarum individuals with Aspidogaster conchicola and 39 snails with metacercariae of Echinoparyphium aconiatum Dietz 1909 or E. recurvatum (Linstow, 1873). Snails with metacercariae and unparasitized snails, but not snails with A. conchicola, produced embryos. Ours is the first record of an Aspidogastrea - P. antipodarum association.
扁卷螺科腹足动物扁卷螺(Potamopyrgus antipodarum)(Gray,1843)在其原生新西兰以外的地区,包括在欧洲,作为寄生虫宿主的了解甚少。我们的目的是确定在有这些寄生虫存在于本地宿主的栖息地中,非本地的扁卷螺是否可以获得 Aspidogastrida 或双腔吸虫。我们检查了来自 Sosno 湖(波兰)的 2400 只扁卷螺个体。大多数蜗牛是成年雌性。没有发现雄性。我们发现了 5 只带有 Aspidogaster conchicola 的扁卷螺和 39 只带有 Echinoparyphium aconiatum Dietz 1909 或 E. recurvatum(Linstow,1873)的囊蚴的蜗牛。带有囊蚴和未寄生的蜗牛,但没有带有 A. conchicola 的蜗牛,产生了胚胎。这是扁卷螺与 Aspidogastrea 之间关联的第一个记录。