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Udonella caligorum Johnston
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS
Monogenea | Gyrodactylidea | Udonellidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology
Host. Subtropical
Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions
Western Atlantic: USA and Puerto Rico.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Short description Morphology
The cylindrical body has a posterior sucker-like attachment organ that is not divided into sections and is not armed with anchors, bars or spines.
Found in free swimming parasitic copepods captured in plankton nets. Transfers from one copepod host to another when these crustacean parasites are mating (a sexual disease of copepods). May feed on parasitic copepods instead of fish host; covers these crustacean parasites with eggs that are probably detrimental. May harm other parasites and may actually benefit fish host (Ref. 359).
Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Members of the class Trematoda are parasitic, thus requires a host to survive. Life cycle: Eggs are passed on to the feces of the hosts. Embryos hatch into miracidia and penetrate the tissues of snails where they further undergo three stages: sporocysts
Main reference
References | Coordinator | Collaborators
Williams, E.H. Jr. and L. Bunkley-Williams 1996 Parasites of offshore big game fishes of Puerto Rico and the Western Atlantic. Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environment Resources, San Juan, PR, and the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR, 382 p. 320 drawings. (Ref. 359)
IUCN Red List Status
(Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
CMS (Ref. 116361)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
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BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record
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Price category
(Ref. 80766):
Unknown.