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''Huffmanela lata'' is a
The adults of ''Huffmanela lata'' are unknown, only the eggs were described. The eggs are 77–88 (mean 84) micrometers in length and 52–63 (mean 57) micrometers in width, with a thick (6–8 micrometers) shell, apparently spinose. Mobile larvae, 200–250 micrometers in length, were visible in the eggs.
The biology of ''Huffmanela lata'' is unknown. Its eggs are probably released from the skin with the turnover of living tissues and immediately continue their life-cycle. The intervention of an intermediary host in the life-cycle (possibly an invertebrate) is possible, as it has been suggested for other species of ''
Zoobank record for ''Huffmanela lata''
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parasitic
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has c ...
nematode.Justine, J.-L. 2005: ''Huffmanela lata'' n. sp. (Nematoda: Trichosomoididae: Huffmanelinae) from the shark ''Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos'' (Elasmobranchii: Carcharhinidae) off New Caledonia. Systematic Parasitology, 61, 181–184. It has been observed on the skin of the grey reef shark ''Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos
The grey reef shark (''Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos'', sometimes misspelled ''amblyrhynchus'' or ''amblyrhinchos'') is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae. One of the most common reef sharks in the Indo-Pacific, it is found as ...
'' off New Caledonia
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. This species has only been reported once in the scientific literature.
Description
The adults of ''Huffmanela lata'' are unknown, only the eggs were described. The eggs are 77–88 (mean 84) micrometers in length and 52–63 (mean 57) micrometers in width, with a thick (6–8 micrometers) shell, apparently spinose. Mobile larvae, 200–250 micrometers in length, were visible in the eggs.
Biology
As it is often the case for species of ''Huffmanela
''Huffmanela'' is a genus of parasitic nematodes, belonging to the family Trichosomoididae.
Morphology
As other nematodes, species of ''Huffmanela'' are elongate and vermiform. They are especially thin and small. The male is smaller than the fem ...
'', the species was found because the accumulation of its eggs produced a black spot; in this particular case, the black spot was on the skin of the shark, near the gill. No adult were found. The biology of ''Huffmanela lata'' is unknown. Its eggs are probably released from the skin with the turnover of living tissues and immediately continue their life-cycle. The intervention of an intermediary host in the life-cycle (possibly an invertebrate) is possible, as it has been suggested for other species of ''
Huffmanela
''Huffmanela'' is a genus of parasitic nematodes, belonging to the family Trichosomoididae.
Morphology
As other nematodes, species of ''Huffmanela'' are elongate and vermiform. They are especially thin and small. The male is smaller than the fem ...
''. However, it is also possible that transmission of the parasite from shark to shark occurs when sharks congregate and skin-to-skin contacts between sharks are frequent. Other species of ''Huffmanela
''Huffmanela'' is a genus of parasitic nematodes, belonging to the family Trichosomoididae.
Morphology
As other nematodes, species of ''Huffmanela'' are elongate and vermiform. They are especially thin and small. The male is smaller than the fem ...
'' are known from other sharks.Moravec, František. 1987: Revision of Capillariid Nematodes (Subfamily Capillariinae) parasitic in fishes. Studie ČSAV No. 3, Academia, Praha, 141 pp.
See also
* ''Huffmanela branchialis
''Huffmanela branchialis'' is a parasitic nematode It has been observed on the gills of the fork-tailed threadfin bream ''Nemipterus furcosus'', a nemipterid marine fish off New Caledonia. Its eggs are released from the gill mucosa with the t ...
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* ''Huffmanela filamentosa
''Huffmanela filamentosa'' is a parasitic nematode It has been observed on the gills of the lethrinid fish '' Gymnocranius oblongus'' and '' Gymnocranius grandoculis'' off New Caledonia. Its eggs are released from the gill mucosa with the turnov ...
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* ''Huffmanela ossicola
''Huffmanela ossicola'' is a parasitic nematode. It has been observed in the branchial arch bone and the spinal cord bone (as well as others) of the labrid marine fishes ''Bodianus loxozonus'', ''Bodianus busellatus'' and ''Bodianus perditio'' ...
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References
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Zoobank record for ''Huffmanela lata''
{{Taxonbar, from=Q13256416 Enoplea Parasitic nematodes of fish Nematodes described in 2005