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Table 2 Mean ± SD of prevalence (% infected ind. in total sample) and intensity (mean number of parasites per infected hosts) (given in brackets in second row) of parasite taxa found in the ten mollusc hosts

From: Macroparasite community in molluscs of a tidal basin in the Wadden Sea

 

Hydrobia ulvae

Littorina littorea

Crepidula fornicata

Cerastoderma edule

Mytilus edulis

Macoma balthica

Cerastoderma glaucum

Mya arenaria

Ensis americanus

Crassostrea gigas

Trematoda

Microphallidae

 Microphallus claviformis

1.5 ± 1.3

         

 Microphallus pygmaeus

 

1.2 ± 1.8

        

 Maritrema subdolum

3.5 ± 1,5

         

 Maritrema gratiosum

0.2 ± 0.4

         

 Levinseniella brachysoma

0.3 ± 0.6

         

Echinostomatidae

 Himasthla elongata

 

2.4 ± 2

 

85.7 ± 21.4 (20.5 ± 24.7)

27.4 ± 18.7 (2.1 ± 0.6)

7.4 ± 2.1 (1.2 ± 0.2)

12.5 ± 17.7 (1.6 ± 0)

1.8 ± 3.2 (1 ± 0)

50 ± 70.7 (4 ± 0)

 

 Himasthla continua

1.9 ± 1.2

  

72.3 ± 34.7 (15.8 ± 25.1)

2.2 ± 2.4 (2.5 ± 0)

6.8 ± 8.9 (1 ± 0)

50 ± 70 (15.3 ± 0)

 

25 ± 35.3 (1.5 ± 0)

 

 Himasthla interrupta

0.3 ± 0.2

  

84.2 ± 38.8 (43.7 ± 20.8)

0.3 ± 0.8 (2 ± 0)

2.9 ± 3.3 (1 ± 0)

70 ± 42.2 (18.4 ± 25.2)

 

37.5 ± 53 (1.3 ± 0)

 

 Himasthla sp.

0.5 ± 0. 7

         

Heterophyidae

 Cryptocotyle concavum

0.5 ± 0.3

         

 Cryptocotyle jejuna

0.1 ± 0.2

         

 Cryptocotyle lingua

 

5.7 ± 3.2

        

Notocotylidae

 Cercaria ephemera

0.7 ± 0.7

         

 Cercaria lebouri

 

0.1 ± 0.2

        

Psilostomatidae

 Psilostomum brevicolle

   

77.6 ± 38.4 (5.8 ± 2.8)

0.9 ± 1.4 (1 ± 0)

4.3 ± 5.2 (1 ± 0)

29.7 ± 41.9 (2 ± 0)

19.7 ± 26.6 (1.9 ± 1.2)

  

 Psilochasmus aglyptorchis

0.2 ± 0.3

         

Acanthocolpidae

 Deropristis inflata

0.1 ± 0.1

         

Cryptogonomidae

 spec.

0.2 ± 0.3

         

Renicolidae

 Renicola roscovita

 

4.8 ± 4.9

 

95.7 ± 6.6 (51.8 ± 49.9)

97.9 ± 2.4 (84.2 ± 83.2)

2.9 ± 3.3 (1 ± 0)

46.9 ± 66.3 (5.9 ± 0)

23 ± 12.9 (2.5 ± 1.8)

39 ± 19.8 (3.4 ± 2.1)

21.7 ± 12.6 (5.8 ± 7)

Gymnophallidae

 Meiogymnophallus minutus

   

22.3 ± 28.6 (1.7 ± 0.8)

      

 Gymnophallus gibberosus

   

64.4 ± 37,8 (5.7 ± 5.2)

1.7 ± 4.1 (1 ± 0)

43.9 ± 13.6 (3.2 ± 1.2)

    

 Gymnophallus choledochus

   

5.2 ± 3.9

      

 Lacunovermis macomae

     

10.1 ± 6.8 (1.2 ± 0.2)

    

 Parvatrema affinis

     

3.1 ± 6.3

    

Monorchiidae

 Monorchis parvus

   

0.5 ± 1.3

      

Bucephalidae

 Labratrema minimus

   

0.3 ± 0.8

      

Opecoelidae

 Podocotyle atomon

 

0.1 ± 0.2

        

Turbellaria

 Paravortex cardii

   

45.4 ± 30.8 (2 ± 0.7)

   

1.8 ± 3.2 (1 ± 0)

  

Nematoda

 spec.

   

4.9 ± 6.4 (0.9 ± 0.1)

      

Copepoda

 Mytilicola intestinalis

    

68.4 ± 25.7 (3 ± 1.7)

     

 spec.

   

58.4 ± 31.3 (2.6 ± 0.9)

2.2 ± 3.4 (1 ± 0)

     

Polychaeta

 Polydora ciliata

 

33 ± 14.6

4.5 ± 6.4

 

20 ± 0

    

81 ±  14

  1. “Sites” were used as replicates, hence n = 2–6 (see Table 1)