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Journal article

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Philichthys xiphiae (Copepoda; Philichthyidae) – an interesting cranium parasite of the swordfish Xiphias gladius collected from the Baltic Sea

Abstract

The swordfish, Xiphias gladius Linnaeus, 1758, is a fish that sporadically enters the Baltic Sea. The present paper describes the identification of a very rarely recorded and poorly studied copepod of the family Philichthyidae – Philichthys xiphiae Steenstrup, 1862 – in a dead swordfish found on a sea beach in Dźwirzyno (Poland) in 2016. Philichthyidae are parasites inhabiting the sensory canals in the lateral line and skull bones of marine fish. In the present case, two P. xiphiae females were found, which constitutes the first record of the species in the Baltic area.

WebOfScience code

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000692872200008

Bibliographic citation

Rolbiecki, L.; Arciszewski, B.; Izdebska, J. (2021). Philichthys xiphiae (Copepoda; Philichthyidae) – an interesting cranium parasite of the swordfish Xiphias gladius collected from the Baltic Sea. Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies 50(3): 333-337. https://dx.doi.org/10.2478/oandhs-2021-0028

Topic

Marine

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true

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open access

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true