Trematode Parasites (Digenea) of the Slender Madtom Noturus exilis and Black River Madtom Noturus maydeni (Siluriformes: Ictaluridae) from Arkansas, USA Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2015 The Helminthological Society of Washington. Between June 2012 and July 2013, 43 slender madtoms (Noturus exilis) and 21 Black River madtoms (Noturus maydeni) were collected from 4 counties of northern Arkansas and examined for helminths. Eleven (26%) slender madtoms were infected with digenean trematodes, including 3 (7%) with metacercaria of Posthodiplostomum minimum, 3 (7%) with Alloglossidium sp., and 7 (16%) with Plagioporus sp.; a single (5%) Black River madtom was infected with Caecincola sp. We document new host records for each of these 4 helminths. Notable among these new host records are new distributional records for Caecincola sp. To our knowledge this represents the first report of any helminth from N. exilis and N. maydeni.

published proceedings

  • COMPARATIVE PARASITOLOGY

altmetric score

  • 0.5

author list (cited authors)

  • McAllister, C. T., Font, W. F., Connior, M. B., Robison, H. W., Fayton, T. J., Stokes, N. G., & Criscione, C. D.

citation count

  • 9

complete list of authors

  • McAllister, Chris T||Font, William F||Connior, Matthew B||Robison, Henry W||Fayton, Thomas J||Stokes, Nicholas G||Criscione, Charles D

publication date

  • January 2015