Anisakidae
Anisakidae | |
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Anisakis simplex larva | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Nematoda |
Class: | Chromadorea |
Order: | Rhabditida |
Superfamily: | Ascaridoidea |
Family: | Anisakidae Scriabine & Karokhin, 1945 |
Genera | |
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The Anisakidae are a
Anisakidae worms can infect many species of fish, birds, mammals and even reptiles.[1]
They have some traits that are common with other parasites. These include: spicules, tail shapes and caudal papillae.[2]
This family of parasites have a complex life cycle, meaning that they come in contact with more than one host throughout the duration of their life. Adult Anisakidae worms lay eggs in the gut of many species of marine mammals, and then these eggs are excreted from the host via fecal matter. Once these hatched larvae are in open water, they can be ingested by krill or other crustaceans. At this stage, the prevalence, or proportion of infected hosts, is rather low. The infected crustaceans can then be eaten by fish and cephalopods, where the parasite then furthers its development. Once the fish obtains the parasite, it then can reach the definitive host, or final host, through the consumption of the infected fish.[3]
The prevalence of this parasite in humans is higher in places that regularly consume raw fish, such as Japan, France, Spain, and other European countries. There have been reported incidents of this parasites worldwide, but not as prevalent as the above-mentioned countries.[citation needed]
List of genera
List of genera according to the World Register of Marine Species:[4]
- Acanthocheilus Molin, 1858
- Anisakis Dujardin, 1845
- Brevimulticaecum Mozgovoi, 1951 [5]
- Contracaecum Railliet & Henry, 1912
- Euterranova Moravec & Justine, 2020 [6]
- Goezia Zeder, 1800
- Neoterranova Moravec & Justine, 2020 [6]
- Phocanema Myers, 1959
- Phocascaris Höst, 1932
- Pseudoterranova Mozgovoi, 1951
References
- ^ "Anisakidae - Overview - Encyclopedia of Life". www.eol.org. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
- S2CID 31440191.
- ISBN 9781782423324.
- ^ Bezerra, T.N.; Decraemer, W.; Eisendle-Flöckner, U.; Hodda, M.; Holovachov, O.; Leduc, D.; Miljutin, D.; Mokievsky, V.; Peña Santiago, R.; Sharma, J.; Smol, N.; Tchesunov, A.; Venekey, V.; Zhao, Z.; Vanreusel, A. (2020). Anisakidae Skrjabin & Karokhin, 1945. In: "NeMys: World Database of Free-Living Marine Nematodes". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2020-11-30.
- ^ Mozgovoy AA. 1951. Ascaridata of mammals in the USSR (Anisakoidea). Trudy Gel’mintologicheskoy Laboratorii Akademii Nauk SSSR, 5, 14–22. [in Russian]
- ^ PMID 33186094.
- ^ Leiper RT, Atkinson EL. 1914. Helminths of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, pp. 222–226
External links
- "Anisakidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved December 12, 2007.