Notes on Sanguinicola davisi (Trematoda: Sanguinicolidae) In the Gills of Trout

Authors

H. S. Davis
Glenn L. Hoffman, US Fish and Wildlife ServicesFollow
E. W. Surber, Branch of US Federal Aid

Date of this Version

1961

Comments

Published in Journal of Parasitology, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Jun. 1961), pp. 512-514

Abstract

In 1953 the late Dr. Davis recorded the presence of an unnamed trematode from the gill blood vessels of fingerling cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki) and fingerling steelhead trout (Salmo gairdneri) at the Alsea Hatchery and in yearling rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) at the Oakridge Hatchery, both of the Oregon State Game Commission. Subsequently, two blood flukes, Sanguinicola davisi and S. klamathensis, were described from trout by Wales (1958). The present species was determined to be S. davisi by one of us (GLH). This report supplements data reported by Davis (1953) and Wales (1958). Unfortunately, Dr. Davis' illustrations for the present paper could not be found.