FIRST RECORD OF ANISAKIS SP. (NEMATODA, ANISAKIDAE) L3 IN THE BODY CAVITY OF ATLANTORAJA PLATANA (RAJIDAE, CHONDRICHTHYES)

MOYA, A. C.; GALÍNDEZ, E. J.; DI GIÁCOMO, E.E.; TANZOLA, R. D.

NEOTROPICAL HELMINTHOLOGY

APHIA

Lugar: Lima; Año: 2015 vol. 9 p. 359 - 365

This communication is the first record of the presence of a third stage larva of Anisakis sp. infecting Atlantoraja platana. The hosts were collected from fishery landings at processing plants of San Antonio Oeste and San Antonio Este prts, Rio negro province,Argentina. They were found in the visceral cavity near the epigonal organ, a lymphomyeloid tissue closely associated with gonads and only in Cartilaginous fish. The high concentrations of urea in the body fluid and tissues of elasmobranch hosts made an inhospitable environment to the colonization of helminthes. The results produced by this work constitute the first report of L3 of Anisakis sp. in the body cavity of an elasmobranch, in partivular a. platana, and show the capability of this anisakid to survive in the visceral mass of these hosts.