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Echinuria uncinata:
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| Taxonomic Classification | Animalia / Nematoda / Secernentea / Spirurida /
Acuariidae
/ Echinuria / Species: (Classification of invertebrate species is an evolving discipline. The information in Wildpro has been carefully referenced to the source material, as far as possible. Readers requiring further clarification should consult the source materials and more recent publications. Classification information in Wildpro will be altered when clear and scientifically endorsed new information regarding taxonomic divisions becomes available to us. This section is currently predominantly used in Wildpro to link different data types and demonstrate inter-relationships. It does not contain detailed information on the invertebrate organism itself.) |
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| Alternative Names | Spiroptera uncinata, Filaria uncinata, Dispharagus uncinatus, Acuaria uncinata, Hamannia uncinata, Echinuria jugadornata, Echinuria cygni. (B91) | |||
| Description | Nematode worm. Approximately 5mm long (B36.35.w35). | |||
| Systems affected | "Gizzard, proventriculus, rarely oesophagus; in nodules in wall." (B91) | |||
| Life Cycle | "Eggs passed in faeces of host, survive in water up to 45 days; hatch after ingestion by fresh-water cladoceran crustacea; larvae penetrate hemocoel, infective to final host in 6-15 days; mature in 34-51 days after ingestion by final host." (B91) | |||
| Taxa Groups (hyperlinked if included as Wildpro Modules) containing host species which have been recorded as infected by this organism. | "Anseriformes, Charadriiformes." (B91) | |||
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| Paratenic Hosts (if known/applicable) | -- | |||
| Geographic distribution | Europe, Asia ( Azerbaidzhan, W. Siberia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, India, Primorsk, Japan, Amur, Kamchatka, Chukotka), N. America (USA, Canada). (B91) | |||
| Associated Waterfowl Diseases | Echinuriasis (Acuariasis) (Acuariasis, Acuaria infection, Echinuria infection, Proventricular worm infection) | Waterfowl Disease Summary | Nematode worm infection causing dysfunction of the proventriculus; carried particularly by the water-flea Daphnia (B36.35.w35). | |
| Waterfowl in which the DISEASE has been recorded (NOT necessarily this specific organism) |
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