New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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Freshwater crayfish Paranephrops planifrons infected with the microsporidian Thelohania

J. B. Jones

Fisheries Research Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, P.O. Box 19062, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract Microsporidian spores, identified as Thelohania sp., were recovered from muscle of Paranephrops planifrons White caught in Lake Taupo, New Zealand. This is a new host record for Thelohania. Variation in spore size with fixation and with time is noted. Mean live spore size differs from T. contejeani Henneguy described previously from P. zealandicus (White) in New Zealand, but falls within the range for European T. contejeani.

Keywords Paranephrops, Thelohania, Microsporidia, Parasites, New host record.

New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research, 1980, 14 (1): 45-46
Received 30 November 1979; revision received 11 December 1979 Fisheries Research Division Publication 390

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