Anisakinae

Arai, Hisao P. & Smith, John W., 2016, Guide to the Parasites of Fishes of Canada Part V: Nematoda, Zootaxa 4185 (1), pp. 1-274 : 128

* Anisakinae gen. sp.

Sites: mesenteries, musculature, stomach, viscera

Hosts: Clupea harengus (1, 2); Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (4); Hippoglossoides platessoides (4); Hippoglossus hippoglossus (4); Limanda ferrugineus (4); Pleuronectes putnami (4); Pseudopleuronectes americanus (4); Scophthalmus aquosus (4); Sebastes fasciatus (5); Sebastes mentella (5); Sebastes norvegicus (3)

Distribution: Atlantic

Records: 1. Sindermann 1957; 2. Sindermann 1961a; 3. Sindermann 1961b; 4. Ronald 1963; 5. Moran et al. 1996

Tribe CONTRACAECINEA: genera Contracaecum and Phocascaris

The species of these two genera are defined by characteristics of the adults. It is difficult therefore to assign larvae

to any one species, and impossible to design a key for their reliable identification (Moravec 2013). Feeding

experiments to rear larvae to adults and/or the application of molecular markers to aid identification of species may

help solve these problems. Brattey (1995) used discriminant function analysis to reveal differences in shape among

larvae of Contracaecum and Phocascaris . He reported that larvae of Phocascaris sp. and C. osculatum B can

generally be distinguished by the use of three measurements (body length, and widths at mid-length and at the base

of the intestinal caecum) although larvae of C. osculatum A could not be reliably distinguished from the other two

species. The following taxa are included as their names have appeared in the relevant Canadian literature.