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Reduction of the intestinal parasite fauna of marine fishes in captivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

H. Möller
H. Möller
Affiliation:
Institut für Meereskunde an der Universitat Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany
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INTRODUCTION

Several authors (Cable & Hunninen, 1942; Dogiel, Petrushevski & Polyanski, 1958) noted that fishes while being kept in aquaria, lose the intestinal parasites with which they had become infested in nature. Up to now no quantitative examinations have been made on this subject. A better knowledge of the behaviour of parasites of fish in captivity seems to be of interest for several reasons.

The possible elimination of intestinal parasites by quarantining the host fish would be of importance in case of parasites which are able to complete their life-cycle in the aquarium and which might provoke mass-infection.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , August 1976 , pp. 781 - 785
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1976

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