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Pollak/Big Bad Bug
... host species, and both subdivisions can be found in a single host fish. At this time, we do not know how epulos are transmitted to the host. Epulopiscium fishelsoni occupies the mid-intestine of the fish ...
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Koi Parasite Treatment
... stages but can infect other fish by contact. It can only live for a short while away from a host fish. However, to complicate things a little, costia can hide from treatments by residing in the anus of the fish, only to ... and searches for a new host. If a host fish is not found within a 24hr period, it dies. Once it finds a host, it crawls along ...
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Virginia Has Big Mussels
... feeders Concentrate pollution Clean water Indicator species Food for herons, raccoons, muskrats, otters Parasite to fish during critical stage of life cycle Why are Virginia's mussels special? Biodiversity of New ... Examples of some of our mussels Threats of dams, water pollution, and the loss of host fish III. Conclusion Questions: List five internal structures of a mussel? What are two benefits of ...
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Unionid Mussels in Kansas
... mussels have a parasitic stage of life that requires a suitable host fish. The eggs develop within the female mussel in a specially ... species of fish. This apparently does no harm to the host fish. Some unionids may use more than one species of fish as a host and others ... uses a type of salamander called the Mud Puppy for the host instead of fish. Also, at least one species of unionid does not have ...
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Chestnut Lamprey in Kansas
... Threatened Range: Dark Blue = Counties with designated critical habitat Light Blue = Historical records Comments: This fish is a long-term survivor with a bizarre life-cycle. Considered primitive because of ... attach to a host fish using its disc-like sucking mouth. The host fish is most commonly a carp, sucker, gar, freshwater drum or catfish. After feeding on body fluids of the host fish, the ...
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Flat Floater mussels in Kansas
... fish’s fins. If the fish is a suitable host and a spring flood occurs, the fish will carry these “hitchhikers” to invade other oxbow habitats when they drop off the host fish. There are several known fish ...
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Ellipse mussels in Kansas
... is narrower in height than the female. The larval form must attach to a host fish or perish. The fish hosts in Kansas are the johnny darter, orange-throat darter and probably the ...
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Neosho Mucket mussels in Kansas
... Neosho mucket waves a lure that imitates a small fish to attract its host fish. Only black bass (largemouth, smallmouth and spotted) serve as the host for Neosho mucket larvae, called glochidia, which the ...
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Western Fanshell mussels in Kansas
... The known host fishes in Kansas are fantail, orangethroat and slenderhead darters, logperch and banded sculpin. The female fanshell slowly extrudes a white, wormlike lure (conglutinate) to attract the host fish. The ... called glochidia. When the lure is bitten by the host fish, some of the hookless glochidia become dislodged and snap shut on the fish’s gills. The female western fanshell may release ...
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CCE - Suffolk County: Marine Program
... Ocean Parkway. We are about 4 miles West of Robert Moses Causeway. This facility is host to educational programs of all types. Suffolk County Marine Environmental Learning Center - Located at ... Aquaculture Training). Fisheries Management - Learn about the fisheries sampling program and the different species of fish - along with regulations and quotas. S.P.A.T. - The Southold Project in Aquaculture ...
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