Esox lucius and the chain pickerel, Esox reticulatus as hosts. is currently found in Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin and various parts of Manitoba, Canada. Its range may expand as the ranges of its two host pike species expands. The northern pike and chain pickerel range from Alaska south to the upper Mississippi valley, east of the Rockies to the Potomac and east and south of the Allegheny Mountains to Louisiana and Arkansas. (Larue, 1914)is native to North America and uses northern pike,
Adult forms of copepod. Within the copepod the egg hatches and forms a procercoid. The copepod is typically eaten by a second intermediate host, such as frogs, crawfish and fish. Once inside the second intermediate host the procercoid develops into a plerocercoid. (Larue, 1914; Scholz, 1999)are found in the intestine and villi of pike. Eggs survive in freshwater systems and are ingested by its first intermediate host, a
As the plerocercoid becomes the adult cestode it will first develop immature proglottids that later become mature proglottids. In mature proglottids, the reproductive organs are easily seen and defined as testes and ovaries with a genital pore and vitellaria as supporting mechanisms. In this stage, the eggs will be fertilized and the mature proglottids will become gravid. Once gravid, they can be released by segments in the host feces. Once released into the water the proglottid will swell up and burst, releasing the eggs into the water to be ingested by a copepod. (Larue, 1914; Scholz, 1999)
Since little is known about the lifespan, the breeding habits (i.e. what time of year they reproduce, signals that are made, etc.) ofare not really known.
There is no known parental investment for.
There is no known information on the lifespan of.
Although there is no specific information on cestodes in general have a nerve ring in the scolex with ganglia (nerve cells). Tactile receptors are attached to organs and are associated with attachment to the host. (Brusca and Brusca, 2003),
Cestoda, absorbs the nutrients it needs through the tegument by active transport, mediated diffusion and simple diffusion. These nutrients are needed for to survive and reproduce. can partially process the nutrients taken in to transform them into the amino acid lactate or into ATP. (Bush, et al., 2001)has no way to process food once it has been taken in and relies heavily on the host for this process. Like other members of class
There is no known predator that actively preys on.
There are no known beneficial effects ofto humans.
There are no known adverse effects ofon humans.
This species does not have any conservation status.
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living in the northern part of the Old World. In otherwords, Europe and Asia and northern Africa.
reproduction that is not sexual; that is, reproduction that does not include recombining the genotypes of two parents
having body symmetry such that the animal can be divided in one plane into two mirror-image halves. Animals with bilateral symmetry have dorsal and ventral sides, as well as anterior and posterior ends. Synapomorphy of the Bilateria.
an animal that mainly eats meat
uses smells or other chemicals to communicate
animals which must use heat acquired from the environment and behavioral adaptations to regulate body temperature
union of egg and spermatozoan
mainly lives in water that is not salty.
having a body temperature that fluctuates with that of the immediate environment; having no mechanism or a poorly developed mechanism for regulating internal body temperature.
fertilization takes place within the female's body
having the capacity to move from one place to another.
the area in which the animal is naturally found, the region in which it is endemic.
an organism that obtains nutrients from other organisms in a harmful way that doesn't cause immediate death
condition of hermaphroditic animals (and plants) in which the male organs and their products appear before the female organs and their products
condition of hermaphroditic animals (and plants) in which the female organs and their products appear before the male organs and their products
remains in the same area
reproduction that includes combining the genetic contribution of two individuals, a male and a female
uses touch to communicate
that region of the Earth between 23.5 degrees North and 60 degrees North (between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle) and between 23.5 degrees South and 60 degrees South (between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle).
The Natural History Museum. 2011. "Cestode glossary" (On-line). Accessed January 19, 2013 at http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/cestode-life-cycle/database/glossary.jsp.
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Bush, A., J. Fernandez, G. Esch, J. Seed. 2001. Parasitism the diversity and ecology of animal parasites. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Larue, G. 1914. A revision of the cestode family: Proteocephalidae, Volume 1. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois.
Scholz, T. 1999. Life cycles of species of Proteocephalus, parasites of fishes in the Palearctic region: a review. Journal of helminthology, 73/1: 1-19.
Watson, R., T. Dick. 1980. Metazoan parasites of pike, Esox lucius Linnaeus, from Southern Indian Lake, Manitoba, Canada. Journal of Fish Biology, 17: 255-261.