Two species of fish parasites, new to science, were discovered in the Mink River
The fish which carried the parasites in the study were caught in 2018, 2019, and 2022: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10537664/
All three authors are from the Czech Republic.
Both parasites were in the genus Gyrodactylus, the flatworms.
Gyrodactylus sp. “C. neogaeus”
Gyrodactylus sp. 2 “R. atratulus”
The name in quotes is the name of the fish, the finescale dace and the eastern blacknose dace.
If you copy and paste each of the two lines above into a browser “find” tool, it will show places in the article discussing the two parasites from the fish in the Mink River as opposed to other parasites in other places. They are described in detail near the bottom of the page.
Diagrams of the parasites are given. The entire worm is shown in black, with a large closeup of their two large hooks on the right of the entire worm:
“C” is Gyrodactylus sp. “C. neogaeus” : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10537664/figure/F6/
“D” is Gyrodactylus sp. 2 “R. atratulus” : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10537664/figure/F7/
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