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Digenean trematodes (Trematoda: Digenea) parasitizing the digestive system of the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) in Hungary

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Dec 31, 2024

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Fig. 1.

Line drawing of the trematode species commonly found in the intestines of cormorants: a – Petaseiger exaeretus, b – Petasiger radiatus, c – Petasiger phalacrocoracis, d – Hysteromorpha triloba. Scale bars: a, d – 200 μm; b, c – 500 μm.
Line drawing of the trematode species commonly found in the intestines of cormorants: a – Petaseiger exaeretus, b – Petasiger radiatus, c – Petasiger phalacrocoracis, d – Hysteromorpha triloba. Scale bars: a, d – 200 μm; b, c – 500 μm.

Fig. 2.

Phylogenetic analysis by maximum likelihood estimation of Petasiger (a) Hysteromorpha (b) and Metorchis (c) samples with related sequences deposited inGenBank. Samples from the present study are in bold. The scale bar indicates the expected number of substitutions per site.
Phylogenetic analysis by maximum likelihood estimation of Petasiger (a) Hysteromorpha (b) and Metorchis (c) samples with related sequences deposited inGenBank. Samples from the present study are in bold. The scale bar indicates the expected number of substitutions per site.

The list of fish species from the stomachs of great cormorants_

Fish species Fish family Number of individuals The number of cormorants in which the fish species was found
Prussian carp (Carassius gibelio) Cyprinidae 57 35
Common bream (Abramis brama) 11 9
White bream (Blicca bjoerkna) 7 2
Bleak (Alburnus alburnus) 15 3
Barbel (Barbus barbus) 1 1
Asp (Leuciscus aspius) 1 1
Carp (Cyprinus carpio) 9 7
Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) 3 3
Hypophthalmichthys sp. 2 2

Pikeperch (Sander lucioperca) Percidae 34 13
Perch (Perca fluviatilis) 4 3
Ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua) 1 1
Schraetzer (Gymnocephalus schraetser) 1 1

Wels catfish (Silurus glanis) Siluridae 1 1

Black bullhead catfish (Ameiurus melas) Ictaluridae 21 6

Northern pike (Esox lucius) Esocidae 2 2

The list of digenean trematode species documented from great cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo) in Europe_ Some of the references use former species names, therefore the listed names here are not necessarily identical with names in the original references_

Species References
Apatemon gracilis (Rudolphi, 1819) 5
Apophallus mühlingi (Jägerskjöld, 1899) 6, 9, 11
Aporchis croaticus (Stossich, 1889) 12
Ascocotyle longa Ransom, 1920 8, 9, 11
Cercarioides aharonii Witenberg, 1929 5, 8, 9, 11
Ciureana cryptocotyloides Issaitschikov, 1923 6
Clinostomum complanatum (Rudolphi, 1814) 10, 12
Cryptocotyle concava (Creplin, 1825) 3, 4, 5, 6
Cryptocotyle lingua (Creplin, 1825) 6
Echinochasmus amphibolus Kotlán, 1922 12
Echinochasmus coaxatus Dietz, 1909 4, 5, 13
Echinochasmus mergi (Cannon, 1939) 12
Echinochasmus mordax (Looss, 1899) 6
Echinochasmus muraschkinzevi Baschkirova, 1941 12
Echinochasmus spinulosus (Rudolphi, 1809) 4, 5
Echinoparyphium recurvatum (von Linstow, 1873) 12
Echinostoma revolutum (Fröhlich, 1802) 12
Galactosomum cochleariforme (Rudolphi, 1819) 6
Galactosomum lacteum (Jägerskiöld, 1896) 6, 8, 9, 11
Galactosomum phalacrocoracis Yamaguti, 1939 6
Galactosomum puffini Yamaguti, 1941 6
Heterophyes aequalis Looss, 1902 8, 9, 11
Holostephanus dubinini Vojtek & Vojtkova, 1968 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13
Hysteromorpha triloba (Rudolphi, 1819) 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 15
Maritrema linguilla Jägerskiöld, 1908 12
Maritrema subdolum Jägerskiöld, 1909 12
Metagonimus yokogawai (Katsurada, 19129 5, 6
Metorchis xanthosomus (Creplin, 1846) 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15
Neoharvardia shigini Iskova, Stenko & Sudarikov, 1992 6
Patagifer parvispinosus Yamaguti, 1933 12
Petasiger exaeretus Dietz, 1909 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15
Petasiger phalacrocoracis (Yamaguti, 1939) 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Petasiger radiatus (Dujardin, 1845) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Petasiger testitrifolius (Gogate, 1934) 12
Posthodiplostomum cuticola (Nordmann, 1832) 5
Prosthogonimus cuneatus (Rudolphi, 1809) 12
Pygidiopsis genata Looss, 1907 6
Renicola secundus Skrjabin, 1924 11
Stephanoprora polycestus (Dietz, 1909) 6
Stephanoprora pseudoechinata (Olsson, 1876) 4, 5, 12
Tylodelphys clavata (von Nordmann, 1832) 3, 4, 11, 13,
Uroproctepisthmium bursicola (Creplin, 1937) 12

Prevalence of trematodes isolated and identified by molecular analysis from the digestive system of great cormorants from Biharugra

Trematoda species Prevalence
Petasiger exaeretus 17/57 (29.8%)
Petasiger radiatus 23/57 (40.4%)
Petasiger phalacrocoracis 3/57 (5.2%)
Hysteromorpha triloba 3/57 (22.8%)
Metorchis orientalis 1/57 (1.7%)