Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-c4f8m Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-17T23:50:50.834Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Parasites in paradise: patterns of helminth distribution in Hawaiian stream fishes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

W.F. Font
W.F. Font*
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana 70402, USA
*
*Fax: (504) 549 3852 E-mail: wffont@selu.edu
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Of the 13 species of helminths that parasitize stream fishes in Hawai'i, seven species are considered to be native to the archipelago and the remaining six species to be introduced by man. Sources of colonization for native species are piscivorous birds for three species, and marine fishes for four species. Non-native helminths have been brought to Hawai'i in association with the importation of parasitized exotic species of poeciliids introduced into streams for mosquito control and as aquarium releases. Many of these introduced parasites have broad host specificity and now infect the five species of native gobioid stream fishes. Exotic parasites, including a roundworm Camallanus cotti, a tapeworm Bothriocephalus acheilognathi and a leech Myzobdella lugubris, are more widely distributed among Hawaiian streams than are native species.

Type
Symposium Papers
Information
Journal of Helminthology , Volume 72 , Issue 4 , December 1998 , pp. 307 - 311
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Esch, G.W., Kennedy, C.R., Bush, A.O. & Aho, J.M. (1988) Patterns in helminth communities in freshwater fish in Great Britain: alternative strategies for colonization. Parasitology 96, 519–532.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
DeMont, D.J. & Corkum, K.C. (1982) The life cycle of Octospiniferoides chandleri Bullock, 1957 (Acanthocephala: Neoechinorhynchidae) with some observations on parasite-induced photophilic behavior in ostracods. Journal of Parasitology 68, 125–130.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Font, W.F. & Tate, D.C. (1994) Helminth parasites of native Hawaiian freshwater fishes: an example of extreme ecological isolation. Journal of Parasitology 80, 682–688.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Font, W.F. (1997a) Distribution of helminth parasites of native and introduced stream fishes in Hawaii. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers, Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1996, Part 2, Notes 49, 56–62.Google Scholar
Font, W.F. (1997b) Improbable colonists: helminth parasites of freshwater fishes on an oceanic island. Micronesica 30, 105–115.Google Scholar
Guegan, J.F. & Kennedy, C.R. (1993) Maximum local helminth parasite community richness in British freshwater fish: a test of the colonization time hypothesis. Parasitology 106, 91–100.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hoffman, G.L. (1967) Parasites of North American freshwater fishes. University of California Press, Los Angeles. 486 pp.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kennedy, C.R. & Bush, A.O. (1994) The relationship between pattern and scale in parasite communities: a stranger in a strange land. Parasitology 109, 187–196.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kennedy, C.R., d'A. Laffoley, D., Bishop, G., Jones, P. & Taylor, M. (1986) Communities of parasites of freshwater fish of Jersey, Channel Islands. Journal of Fish Biology 29, 215–226.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kinzie, R.A. III. (1991) Hawaiian freshwater ichthyofauna. pp. 18–39 in New directions in research, management and conservation of Hawaiian freshwater stream ecosystems. Proceedings of the 1990 Symposium on Freshwater Stream Biology and Fisheries Management. State of Hawaii, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Aquatic Resources, Honolulu.Google Scholar
Marcogliese, D.J. (1992) Metazoan parasites of sticklebacks of Sable Island, Northwest Atlantic Ocean: biogeographic considerations. Journal of Fish Biology 41, 399–407.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McDowall, R.M. (1988) Diadromy in fishes. 308 pp. Portland, Oregon, Timber Press.Google Scholar
Noble, E.R. (1966) A new camallanid nematode from Hawaii. Pacific Science 20, 360–366.Google Scholar
Rigby, M.C. & Font, W.F. (1997) Redescription and range extension of Spirocamallanus istiblenni Noble, 1966 (Nematoda: Camallanidae) from coral reef fishes in the Pacific. Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington 64, 227–233.Google Scholar
Yamaguti, S. (1968) Monogenetic trematodes of Hawaiian fishes. 287 pp. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yamaguti, S. (1970) Digenetic trematodes of Hawaiian fishes. 436 pp. Toyko, Keigaku Publishing Company.Google Scholar
Yamaguti, S. (1971) Synopsis of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates. 1074 pp. Tokyo, Keigaku Publishing Company.Google Scholar
Yamaguti, S. (1975) A synoptical review of life histories of digenetic trematodes of vertebrates. 219 pp. Tokyo, Keigaku Publishing Company.Google Scholar