Demonstration of the existence of a marine cycle in the strigeides: Cardiocephalus longicollis Szidat, 1928 (Trematoda: Strigeidae)
Abstract
During their investigations on parasitism of fishes and birds in the lagoon of Brusc (Var), the authors have discovered the life cycle of Cardiocephalus longicollis. Cercariae of pharyngeate furcocercous type develop in sporocysts in the digestive gland of the marine prosobranch Nassa corniculum. The cercaria is identified as Cercaria nassae (Dolgikh, 1965) from Nassa reticulata in Black sea; it closely resembles Cercaria nassa (Martin, 1945) from Ilyanassa obsolseta (syn. Nassa obsoleta) at Woods Hole (U.S.A.). Several intermediate hosts have been related; they are the marine fishes Diplodus annularis, D. vulgaris, Boops salpa, Pagellus mormyrus (Sparidae) and Belone belone (Scombresocidae). Metacercariae of tetracotyle type were found in the cavity of optical lobes of the brain. Experimental contamination of fishes: Potamoschistus microps, Blennius sp., Mugil cephalus and Syngnathus abaster has been negative; that of Diplodus annularis and D. sargus, positive. It allowed to follow the development from cercaria to tetracotyle. In Provence natural definitive hosts are Larus argentatus and L. ribidundus; contaminations of these birds with metacercariae experimentally raised in Diplodus annularis and D. vulgaris were successfull. Some observations are pointed out especially the development of the parasite in the definitive host, the organisation of tribocytic organ and the geographical distribution of the parasite.
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