Folia Parasitologica 51[2/3] 253-261 (2004) | DOI: 10.14411/fp.2004.030

Chaetotaxy applied to Norwegian Gyrodactylus salaris Malmberg, 1957 (Monogenea) clades and related species from salmonids

Tor A. Bakke1, Kariann B. Nilsen1, Andrew P. Shinn2
1 Zoological Museum, The Natural History Museums and Botanical Garden, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
2 Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK

Gyrodactylus salaris Malmberg, 1957 is a major pathogen of wild Salmo salar L. parr populations in Norway, and its delimitation from non-pathogenic species is important. The present study was undertaken to test the power of chaetotaxy to differentiate between three populations belonging to both the same and different clades (as stated by mtDNA) of G. salaris, in addition to three different species of gyrodactylids (G. salaris, G. thymalli and G. caledoniensis). The gyrodactylids were processed for chaetotaxy in situ and a maximum of 50 specimens per collection site were used to construct a generalised map over the sensilla. The sensilla were found in all populations to be symmetrically distributed around the median longitudinal axis, according to a formula of 7 dorsal (34 sensilla) and 8 ventral (44 sensilla) clusters on each side of the median line. The three Norwegian populations of G. salaris were found identical, as were the population of G. thymalli. The specimens of G. caledoniensis from Scotland, however, were found to differ from the Norwegian species G. salaris and G. thymalli by the position of one sensillum in two of the clusters. A comparison of the sensillum pattern of laboratory maintained G. salaris (River Lierelva) with results obtained ten years earlier, questions the temporal stability of the chaetotaxy pattern. The present results indicate that chaetotaxy can be used to discriminate between certain Gyrodactylus spp. but not generally.

Keywords: Gyrodactylus salaris, parasite, salmonids, taxonomy, chaetotaxy

Received: November 25, 2003; Accepted: May 12, 2004; Published: June 1, 2004  Show citation

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Bakke, T.A., Nilsen, K.B., & Shinn, A.P. (2004). Chaetotaxy applied to Norwegian Gyrodactylus salaris Malmberg, 1957 (Monogenea) clades and related species from salmonids. Folia Parasitologica, 51(2-3), 253-261. doi: 10.14411/fp.2004.030
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